Mama Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away
Last week Kodak announced that it is discontinuing it’s Kodachrome film due to declining customer demand. In addition to the implications this announcement has on one of my favorite Paul Simon songs, the news made me sad for the fashion industry- which is still reeling from Polaroid discontinuing their instant film. Some of fashions most beloved photographers, such as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, used the high contrast film for their photographs. The film is know for it’s high contrast and saturated blue, green and red colors which create dramatic images that perfectly compliment fashion’s heightened sense of reality.
Want to learn more? Check out Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography.
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by zuri
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