Eastman Kodak rolled out their last roll of the venerable Kodachrome emulsion and gave it to Steve McCurry, of course. The photographic world wept, then moved on. Here are tributes from Matt Zoller Seitz, Mike Johnston, and NPR Radio's Brad Horn and Claire O'Neill. Oh, and National Geographic is going to produce a documentary on what McCurry shot with that precious last roll. Yeah, no pressure there. I loved that he used a digital camera to first check the exposure prior to using his film camera. Maybe I should do that next time.
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| Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
League One side Southampton banned all photographers from their stadium during a weekend football game. How does the local press respond? Why not send in someone to draw cartoons about it?
Satire: Do you know that even terrorists hate being treated like photographers? "I resent being treated like I’m some sort of photographer. The officer who stopped me had absolutely no evidence that mere photography was my intention, so what right did he have to detain me and delete my photographs."
They must have heard of Ron Galella. Andrew O'Hehir reviews the latest documentary about the infamous paparazzi photographer Smash His Camera.
Tech News:
German magazine Foto Digital reports presumably leaked information from Nikon about upcoming product releases. Reaction from Thom Hogan.
Ben Long explains why you should shoot RAW.
Not photography, but geeky nonetheless:
Reactions to the new Scott Pilgrim movie by Ben Kuchera and Matt Zoller Seitz. Are we all geeks now?
