When Steve McCurry learned last Summer that Kodak would discontinue its Kodachrome film, he requested the last 36-frame roll manufactured by the company, loaded it into his Nikon F6, then set out on a global trek to shoot the last images that would ever be recorded on that film. What did he shoot?
We don’t have a complete list, but here are seven:
- The Brooklyn Bridge
- Grand Central Terminal
- Robert De Niro
- The nomadic Ribari tribespeople in Rajasthan, India
- A Bollywood actor in Mumbai, India
- Self-portrait, posing next to a Kodak-yellow taxicab bearing the license plate PKR 36 — the code name for Professional Kodachrome film
- Self-portrait, sprawled on a hotel bed at journey’s end
National Geographic magazine is considering doing a spread on McCurry’s trip. All the originals are destined for air-conditioned safekeeping at the George Eastman House film and photography museum in Rochester.
[dailynews]
