Description
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.
Background
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.
Restrictions
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or
to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Availability
The collection is open for research.