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| Vol. 4, Issue 5 May 2012 |
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Goings On |
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Technology |
Kodachrome Fades Away
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Published :1 September 2010 |
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| Three-quarters of a century after it began to capture the visual world in frames, Kodachrome decided to fold up its film operations, and it got ace photojournalist, Steve McCurry to do the honours of developing its last roll. McCurry reminisced about how he had shot the last roll of Kodachrome, produced by Eastman Kodak, around New York. “Then we went to India,” he said, “where I photographed a tribe that is actually on the verge of extinction. It’s actually disappearing, the same way as Kodachrome.” Kodachrome has built the reputations of thousands of photographers all over the world, including McCurry’s, who shot his iconic photograph of Sharbat Gula, the ‘Afghan Girl,’ for National Geographic magazine in 1984. And it is National Geographic that will cover the processing of the last Kodachrome roll in an early 2011 issue.
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