Articles tagged with: Steve McCurry

[By: Davis | 26 Jun 2009 | 0 Comments ]

The blog at Penn State’s alumni magazine had a post about Steve McCurry, the alumnus photographer who shot the famous Afghan Girl picture… it got us interested in the whole story, so here it is.
Kodachrome
First, some technical stuff… see, the photograph was shot using Kodak Kodachrome film. Kodak announced the discontinuation of that film type on Monday. To honor the famous film, Kodak asked some famous photographers who had used it to shot the last remaining rolls.
Since Steve McCurry’s picture of the Afghan Girl is one of the most iconic images of our time, he was one of the selected …