Last Roll of Kodachrome--Frame by Frame

[wilonstott]

In Vanity Fair.

He's got some winners on the roll.

I wonder what camera he used?

I think it's fitting that they gave it to Steve.


http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro


When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

 

[wilonstott]

Nikon F6--in the article.

 

[iamzip]

Thanks for sharing. I'll have to remember to keep an eye out for the tv special.

 

[wjlapier]

I like the Rabari elders photos.

 

[craygc]

What was the point of Steve McCurry taking the last roll of Kodachrome and hyping it up only to produce a bunch of crappy snap shots like that!!! I'm really shocked that someone like McCurry would ever consider publishing 70% of those shots and the rest are just overly repeated head and shoulder portraits in India. Extremely disappointed in the outcome...

 

[not_in_good_order]

What was the point of Steve McCurry taking the last roll of Kodachrome and hyping it up only to produce a bunch of crappy snap shots like that!!! I'm really shocked that someone like McCurry would ever consider publishing 70% of those shots and the rest are just overly repeated head and shoulder portraits in India. Extremely disappointed in the outcome...

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Showing all of the images in this instance is important not because of their absolute artistic merit, but because of what they represent--the last roll of Kodachrome (sans a couple of duplicates). Steve McCurry isn't a magician where every frame he shoots is gold. I'm sure he's happy with one or two publishable frames per roll.