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Kodak, How We Loved Ya

by Steven Heller January 19, 2012

Kodak invented digital photography and holds some valuable patents. Yesterday it announced its long sadly anticipated filing for bankruptcy. From the Kodak identity to its products, it has been a mainstay -- and icon of American industry and design. Here's hoping this important company will emerge from Chapter 11 as healthy, wealthy and wise.

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The Last Picture Show

by Steven Heller July 26, 2010

Kodachrome is dead! Long live Kodachrome! I wasn't alive the first time it was sold to the public, but I own a set of slides taken at the 1939 World's Fair, where Kodak made its stunningly crisp film available to one and all. Kodak announced last year that it would retire Kodachrome, the popular color-reversal [...]

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