Kodachrome

“Processed with love, developed by post, remembered in permanent color.”

Kodachrome was the color reversal film Eastman Kodak introduced in 1935, one of the first successful color materials for both cinematography and still photography. For years it was the professional choice for color photography, especially for images headed for print, which is why so many memorable published photographs owe their look to it.

Its famously complex processing meant film had to be mailed back to Kodak, and an antitrust run-in with the U.S. Department of Justice in 1954 forced Kodak to unbundle the price and license development to independent stores. The process-paid arrangement lingered in other markets around the world, but the film itself was discontinued in 2009. What it leaves behind is a body of published work whose color came, for deca

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