The Last Roll of Kodachrome—Frame By Frame! | Vanity Fair

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The Last Roll of Kodachrome—Frame by Frame!

A celebrated photographer makes a passage to India—and marks the end of an era.

via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro

McCurry—most famous for his National Geographic cover of an Afghan girl in a refugee camp, shot on Kodachrome—loaded his Nikon F6 with the 36-exposure spool and headed east, intending to concentrate on visual artists like himself, relying on his typical mix of portraiture, photojournalism, and street photography.

Herewith, presented for the first time in their entirety, are the frames from that historic final roll,