The Edge of Air: Photographs of the Final Days of the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro

Cultural Writing. Art. THE EDGE OF AIR presents the photographs of The Legacy Project, which consists of six Southern California photographers: Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada. This extensive documentation project, which began in April 2002 and chronicles the controversial shuttered Marine Corps Air Station El Toro located in the heart of Orange County, California on the eve of its transformation into one of the nation's largest metropolitan parks, the Orange County Great Park. The book marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new phase for The Legacy Project, which is committed to continue photographing this extraordinary development in the history of Southern California over the next decade. The elegant and haunting color photographs of The Legacy Project show the fragile beauty of decay and abandonment throughout a once thriving military city. Each artist has brought personal aesthetics to bear in what has the p