Steve McCurry’s 'Last Roll of Kodachrome' photos are now live on his blog

any coincidence that Steve took a photo of a statue with the right hand missing?

pretty poetic and pretty cool actually.

Shrug. Although I'm quite fond of McCurry's photography in general, I don't really care for his travel portraits. Whether or not he started the craze, it's overdone.

That's an outrageously high proportion of "keepers" from one 36-roll of Kodachrome. Shows the quality of Steve McCurry's ability to see -- although, I guess, using the last roll of Kodachrome might have heightened the sense of gravity before clicking the button.

I just shared this with a girl in whom I'm interested that worked in Afghanistan for a few years and totally got a date out of it! Thanks, Dpreview.com!

Dan- I made the three hour drive down from Kansas City to Dwayne's that day, arriving just before close. Took the tour (and watched as USPS AND UPS AND FedEx arrived minutes before five with enormous pallates of huge bags of packaged film). I walked outside a few minutes after five (with my commemorative yellow Kodachrome t-shirt) and stepped across the street to shoot Dwayne's from the side with the drive-through window- the one that said "KODACHROME LAB" in bold letters across the top. I was the only person standing there when one of Dwayne's staff members came to the window and flipped the sign to "closed". I have the shot of her walking away, the sign reading closed underneath the big Kodachrome Lab decal. Yes, a completely random story, but everytime I see the file I feel like I have a little piece of history as I was the only person standing there in that moment.

I makes me recall the feeling of looking at slide films.

I would have liked to seen a portrait of Paul Simon included in the final roll.

Really? You, the last Kodachrome to be processed?
I was coming back from the Canyon lands, Arches Park to be exact on my way home to Montreal. I dropped 5 Kodachrome films to be sent for processing on January 25th, at a photo store in Salt Lake City. Since I wasn't to wait the customary 7 days I left my home address written on the envelopes. I received ALL my slides in plastic boxes at my door two weeks later.
The clerk mentioned that there wasn't any more Kodachrome for sale, but that Kodak was still honoring their prepaid Kodachrome.
What? You were there when The Beatles broke up?
:)

Steve shot the last roll to come off of the production line, Dwayne of Dwayne's Photo shot the last roll to be processed and I shot the last roll before the machine was shut down, had 50 rolls come out of the last 100 roll batch along with Dwayne's roll on January 17th at 1:00 PM when Kodachrome officially passed into the history books.

If you want to see what was on the **very** last roll to of the film to be shot and processed as actual Kodachrome, I uploaded frame number 8 from that roll here:

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/302190586/photos/2423000/last_roll

This was out of 1,285 rolls I shot for my project over a 6 year span, about 65 well past the lab cut off date of December 30th, 2010. The edit is nearly done, I have about 300 top images for the book and a couple of publishers on the line...

I'm glad I watched this, nice to see a master at work. Some wonderful photos on this roll. Must be nice to be able to call up celebrities to have them sit for a portrait. Film really is wonderful.

Very interesting, and well done Steve I might add. I am sad to see such a long ledgend come to a close for so many! I to shot a few rolls of Kodachrome. But what really makes me respond and take time out to watch this 30 minute segment come to an end...was the memories of my Grandpa, who, a professional Photographer himself shot thousands of kodachrome pictures through out his life as a photographer. He was fond of his work, and was really into Kodak. Thanks Steve, Good work.

What we learn is that even giants like Steve McCurry can miss 1 out of every 6 photos despite shooting such an important roll as "the last roll of Kodachrome".

Great images from a master photographer. McCurry is clearly one of the great portraitists of our time. I learn something every time I see his work.

It's amazing how great those shots are, totally separate and apart from the Kodachrome aspects...

a lot of good shots from one roll of film: that is probably the most amazing aspect of this experiment.

One of the greatest photographers of our time. His images are breathtaking particularly on his blog.

Ahh the grain...the hi-contrast and saturation...love it!

Why are the shots so grainy?

Wake me when we get to the last roll of Velvia ;)

nothing to write home about.

It's hard to beat Steve McCurry...