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Article: Photographers resigned to end of Kodachrome era.(Visual Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For thirty years, professional photographer Rick Smolan stashed away in his drawer photos that documented the life of a girl who came from a poor South Korean village to the United States at the age of 11.
In bright, vivid pictures, the photos show her dressed in traditional Korean attire as she flew across the Pacific to live with her adoptive parents in the United States. The images later show her as a high school cheerleader, working at a fast food restaurant, and then as an adult -- getting married and starting her own family.
Despite the age of his film collection, Smolan -- a former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer ...