Steve Mc Curry

[Sandrine Bascouert]

On his blog about the last roll of Kodachrome.

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/

just look at that image, so well framed...

http://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/india-10739.jpg

[Cem_Usakligil]

A very nice link Sandrine, thanks for pointing it out. I was even more delighted to see that one of the pictures (http://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/frame_25.jpg) on this last roll is of Ara Guler, one of my personal heroes (http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7453) in photography.

Just a few weeks back I have bought a recent book of Ara Guler (with a foreword by Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish Nobel Price winner in literature). It is called Ara Guler's Istanbul (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ara-G%C3%BClers-Istanbul/dp/0500543860/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293884972&sr=1-1) and covers most of his major photographs of Istanbul between the 1950s and 1990s. I recommend it very highly. Here is the cover photo of the book as shown on the Amazon website:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E4tulY9WL._SS400_.jpg

Cheers,

[Asher Kelman]

On his blog about the last roll of Kodachrome.

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/

just look at that image, so well framed...

http://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/india-10739.jpg

Double super-Wow, Sandrine!

Jikes! what a superb photographer and what loss in Kodachrome. I just checked and I still have 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64 left!

Now, what to do with them! Can one process them with a tank?

Asher

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Yes It can be done, I am pretty sure that a kit used to exist and am ALMOST pretty sure that I already used one (in those years before 1995) at school....
I'll check!

K-14 process if I remember...

edit: found all these, sort them out...

http://www.ralphdickinson.com/process_site/kodachrome.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-14_process

the PDF
http://www.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/service/Zmanuals/z50_03.pdf

But where to find the chemicals, it's another problem....

[fahim mohammed]

Cem, thank you for bringing back memoeries of Istanbul. I remember leafing through Ara's work in
a bookshop waiting to buy a limited edition of Sinan's works.

To Mr. Mc Curry then.

You do rememeber his most famous photograph? Yes.

Nothwithstanding his ' Spirit of Place ' that shall remain his seminal capture.

And so it should. See what he captured in there and one shall understand what it is all about.

[Cem_Usakligil]

Yes It can be done, I am pretty sure that a kit used to exist and am ALMOST pretty sure that I already used one (in those years before 1995) at school....
I'll check!

K-14 process if I remember...

edit: found all these, sort them out...

http://www.ralphdickinson.com/process_site/kodachrome.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-14_process

the PDF
http://www.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/service/Zmanuals/z50_03.pdf

But where to find the chemicals, it's another problem....

There is an informative post (http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/12/old-kodachrome.html) at the Online Photographer about the processing possibilities of Kodakchrome. Mike has also highlighted the picture of Ara Guler (http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/01/the-last-roll-and-ara-gler-too.html) on this last roll of Kodakchrome, to my sheer surprise :).