Kodachrome
Kodachrome captured a color version of the Hindenburg’s fireball explosion in 1936. It accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953. Abraham Zapruder was filming with 8-mm Kodachrome in Dallas when he accidentally captured President Kennedy’s assassination. National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry used it to capture the haunting green-gray eyes of an Afghan refugee girl in 1985 in what is still the magazine’s most enduring cover image.
McCurry’s photographic career perfectly traces the rise and fall of Kodak film. He shot his iconic Afghan-girl portrait on Kodachrome and returned 17 years later to photograph the same woman with Kodak’s easier-to-develop Ektachrome. Now, he relies on digital.
source: Time.com
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome awayPaul Simon
But Eastman Kodak has …
That is an amazing picture, and the colors really tell a lot of the story. I looked up the before/after comparison online at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text/1. Are their differences in the films used that show in the pictures? (I tried to tell this for myself, but I’m distracted by other things going in the photos.)