Jerry Burchfield Laguna Canyon posters, circa 1989-1999

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Summary

Creators:
Burchfield, Jerry and Chamberlain, Mark
Abstract:
This collection contains two posters documenting environmentalist activities engaged in by Jerry Burchfield and Mark Chamberlain, two professional photographers living in Laguna Beach, California. The posters are titled The tell: phase viii - Laguna Canyon Project, circa 1989-1990 and Save the canyon, circa 1998-1999.
Extent:
0.3 Linear Feet
Language:
Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

Jerry Burchfield Laguna Cayon Posters. MS-R107. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

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Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains two posters documenting environmentalist activities engaged in by Jerry Burchfield and Mark Chamberlain, two professional photographers living in Laguna Beach, California. The posters are titled The Tell: Phase VIII - Laguna Canyon Project, circa 1989-1990 and Save the Canyon, circa 1998-1999. The Tell: Phase VIII was a scultped photographic mural which was on display in Laguna Canyon from 1989 to 1990. It was 636 feet long and was made up of over 80,000 photographs. Save the Canyon is a poster that raises awareness about the potential of a development being built in Laguna Canyon.

Biographical / historical:

Jerry Burchfield, born in 1947, was an photographer living in Southern California. From 1973 to 1987, Burchfield co-owned BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach. Much of the art displayed in this gallery had political implications, particularly about environmental issues. Burchfield and other photographers began photographing and documenting Laguna Cayon in 1974 in order to try to prevent a development being built there. Burchfield published several books on photography and he was also a professor and photography gallery director at Cypress College from 1987 to 2009. Burchfield passed away in September 2009.

Acquisition information:
Acquired, 2003.
Processing information:

Processed by Zoe MacLeod, 2012.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

Preferred citation:

Jerry Burchfield Laguna Cayon Posters. MS-R107. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Location of this collection:
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA , US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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