Yet another milestone reached in the slow but sure demise of film as a mainstream medium – the last roll of Kodachrome has been produced and used! According to this article in the Wichita Eagle:
Kodak announced last year that it would retire Kodachrome, a brand name of color reversal film it had manufactured since 1935. McCurry, well-known for his 1984 photograph of Sharbat Gula, or the “Afghan Girl,” published on the cover of National Geographic magazine, requested from Kodak to shoot the last roll of 36 frames it manufactured.
It’s a great article and well worth the read – but also sad in a way, as yet another icon bids farewell.
