I was able to finally locate the last images that Steve McCurry shot with Kodachrome which he had processed at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons Kansas, the last Kodachrome processing lab in the world. After 75 years of production Kodak ceased production of the popular and highly regarded by pros and archivists KR series film. National Geographic required all photogs to shoot with it. This was a great film for its color, tones, push characteristics and chemical composition which made difficult assignments possible. However, as all tansparency film you really had to know what you were doing. What you shot is what you got, no photoshop was possible. Consequently, there were fewer pro photogs and no "picture takers" that now bang out snapshots saying , oh I'll fix it in photoshop.
Photo credits courtesy of: Steve McCurry; Magnum Photos; New York Times
Images listed out of order. A frame 34; B frame 36; C frame 35
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