Thanks to the rising popularity of digital photography and a decline in demand, Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome, a type of color reversal film, back in 2009. The last day that Kodachrome film will ever be processed is December 30th at Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas — a longtime holdout whose stock has finally come to an end. As such, we’ve decided to pay homage to the photographers who have embraced Kodachrome throughout their careers. Click through for a gallery of amazing work by Eric Meola, Steve McCurry, and Peter Guttman.
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[Editor's note: We're reposting this feature from last year due to popular demand and the fact that we're wondering if most of you got to see it the first time around. Enjoy!]
On a recent holiday shopping trip uptown, in order to escape the hordes cascading down 5th Avenue, I ducked into one of New York’s contemporary art museums. While sauntering through the maze of galleries I came upon a certain photograph that gave me pause. I studied the slap-dash camera angle and the basic lighting, and thought to myself: “Really? This is what it takes? I can do that!”
And then it hit me like a bolt of lightning: Not only can I do that, I will do that, and then I will pawn off the results on all of my unsuspecting relatives. Why give a Richard Avedon poster, when I can make an original Adda Birnir knock-off? Thus I enlisted the help of my trusty co-conspirator Tom Starkweather and together we picked five masters of photography (Cindy Sherman, Steve McCurry, Philip Lorca Dicorcia, Richard Avedon, and Ryan McGinley) whose work we felt was just begging to be re-created.
Detailed instructions and the results, after the jump.
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