Monthly Archive for March, 2011

From Julian Stallabrass in The London Review of Books:

The longest-lived of camera films has just ended its 75-year history. The only laboratory that still processed Kodachrome, the first commercially available colour slide film, stopped doing so at the end of last year. Kodak progressively withdrew the film from sale between 2002 and 2009, though many photographers loved it enough to buy large stocks to keep in their freezers. Amateurs cannot develop Kodachrome, which requires a large number of carefully controlled treatments, so, with the end of laboratory processing, the film is finished.

Change happens. We mourn the passing of old friends and greet new ones with enthusiasm laced with uncertainty. Julian Stallabrass shows what photographers will be missing with the end of Kodachrome.

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