A Color-Saturated Sun Sets on Kodachrome – NYTimes.com

A Color-Saturated Sun Sets on Kodachrome

Kodachrome’s final hours are unspooling in the town of Parsons, Kan., where Dwayne’s Photo is processing the last rolls of the 75-year-old color film.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/a-color-saturated-sun-sets-on-kodachrome/

The town of Parsons, Kan., is — for the moment — the worldwide epicenter of color film photography. That is where Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business, is processing the last rolls of Kodachrome. A. G. Sulzberger is there and has filed this report. Eastman Kodak stopped making the film in 2009 and gave the last roll to Steve McCurry. He shot the last three frames of that roll in Parsons before handing it in to Dwayne’s. They are displayed above.