All you Kodachrome fetishists can come out to San Francisco for "The
Last Kodachrome" exhibit.
Here's an excerpt from a SF Chronicle article last week:
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There will still be a sister film called Ektachrome, but Willard, a
fine art photographer in Redwood City, is not buying it.
"I'll probably do only black and white," he says, lowering his tone to
a funereal whisper. "There's no color like Kodachrome."
When the Eastman Kodak Co announced that the last rolls were hitting
the shelves, in June 2009, Willard bought 40 rolls, at $8 apiece, and
stuck them in the fridge of his townhouse in Redwood Shores. Then he
contacted Ann Jastrab, director of Rayko Gallery, proposing a juried
exhibition for Kodachrome prints.
Fifty photographers nationwide, plus a few from Canada, northern
Europe and South Africa, sent in portfolios. Twenty-one photographers
were selected and 45 prints are in the show, which opened Dec. 17 and,
after a Christmas break, will reopen Jan. 4. Included are four prints
of Willard's abstract expressionist work.
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The rest of the article is here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/25/DD0C1GOFON.DTL
Info on the exhibit:
http://raykophoto.com/?page_id=37
Jim
PS- then swing by SFMOMA for the Cartier-Bresson exhibit. I went
earlier this week. Fantastic show:
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/409
On Dec 30, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Shawn Broes wrote:
> Very cool, thanks!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Knut A. Helgeland <knut@toxic.no>
> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> This movie turned up earlier this year, the very first test of
>> Kodachrome
>> color motion picture film, shot in 1922:
>>
>> http://1000words.kodak.com/post/?ID=2982503
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RTnd3Smy8
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>> K
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>> On 30. des. 2010, at 14.36, wilsonchao wrote:
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>>> The final roll of Kodachrome will be processed today:
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html
>>>
>>> "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"
>>>
>>> ("Kodachrome" by Paul Simon)
>
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