Dwayne's Photo

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Coordinates: 37 ° 20 '12.7 "  N , 95 ° 17' 10.4"  W.

Dwayne's Photo
legal form unknown
founding 1956
Seat Parsons , Kansas United StatesUnited States
management Dwayne Steinle
Number of employees ≈60
Branch Photo lab
Website www.dwaynesphoto.com
Status: 2010

Dwayne's Photo is a photo lab based in Parsons , Kansas , USA. It became known primarily by the fact that after the cessation of production of Kodak Kodachrome them before -Farbdiafilme mid-2009 as the world's last Kodak-certified laboratory developed until 30 December 2010. him the following month the developing liquids went out.

history

Dwayne Steinle (* 1931) started taking pictures in high school . During the Korean War (1950 to 1953) he ran a photo laboratory in the American Army. On his return he ran a photo business with a borrowed photo enlarger and by 1956 he had founded "Dwayne's Photo". Founded as a small film processing company, it quickly grew into one of the leading photo developers in the USA. When the use of 8mm film and its successor, the Super-8, declined in the 1980s, most facilities closed. Dwayne and several other labs processed a variety of film types such as Instamaticfilm / 126mm film that are no longer in production. In the early 1990s, he decided to invest in equipment for processing Kodachrome - a complex and demanding process that was carried out by only 25 photo labs worldwide, even at the height of its popularity. Kodak first stopped Kodachrome (2009) and then stopped manufacturing chemicals (2010). At noon on December 30, 2010, Dwayne's Photo accepted the last Kodachrome rolls ever processed.

Between 2000 and 2010, the business suffered a sharp drop in sales due to the widespread migration of digital photography and had to reduce its workforce from 200 employees to around 60 by 2010. At the time, “digital” sales accounted for half of the company's revenue.

The end of Kodachrome

Dwayne's Photo announced that Kodak is no longer making Kodachrome films and will continue to be processed through December 2010. On July 14, 2010, Dwayne announced that the final film roll for National Geographic photojournalist Steve McCurry would be produced. The 36 slides are housed in the George Eastman House in Rochester , New York, Kodak's headquarters. Owner Dwayne Steinle exposed the last roll of the Kodachrome film to be developed with a group photo taken by Dwayne's Photo staff. Based on the 2010 New York Times article about this incident, director Mark Raso made the film Kodachrome in 2017 .

The final days of Dwayne's Photo Kodachrome color processing are documented in the book Kodachrome - End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches by Bill Barrett. The book contains one year of images captured by photography students at Webster University in St. Louis on more than 100 rolls of Kodachrome film and processed by Dwayne on the final processing day, January 18, 2011, before the processing chemicals were exhausted . For the occasion, Dwayne had a t-shirt printed that said:

Kodachrome
Paul (Simon) sang about it.
A state park was named after it.
National Geographic shot their most famous photos on it.
And we developed the last roll.

- Dwayne Steinle : Dwayne's Photo

The song by the singer-songwriter Paul Simon , to which Steinle refers in the t-shirt print, is also called Kodachrome and was created in 1973.

Kodachrome Basin State Park is in Utah .

Movie

In 2013 the story of the laboratory and the founder was filmed in the documentary short film Dwayne's Photo by Sarah George as part of the cross-media project "94 Elements". Each element of the periodic table has its own story. The film refers to silver, the 47th element. Silver halides are used in both the manufacture of films and photographic paper .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Our History . Dwayne's Photo. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  2. ↑ Kodak Retires KODACHROME Film; Celebrates Life of Oldest Film Icon in its Portfolio . Kodak . June 22, 2009. Archived from the original on October 16, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  3. ^ Dwayne's Photo, Parsons Kansas, The Last Lab to Process Kodachrome , Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on July 26, 2010. Retrieved March 1, 2010.  
  4. ↑ End of an Era: Kodak to discontinue Kodachrome 64 . Photo.net. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  5. ^ A b Sarah George: Dwayne's Photo. The unlikely story of how Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, became the last lab on earth to process Kodachrome. Kickstarter, 2013, archived from the original on November 30, 2013 ; accessed on May 2, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b Arthur Gregg Sulzberger: For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas . In: The New York Times , December 29, 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2018. 
  7. ^ Last Kodachrome roll processed in Parsons . The Wichita Eagle. July 14, 2010. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kansas.com
  8. ^ Bill Barrett: Kodachrome - End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches . Webster University Press, St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-0-9821615-2-4 , pp. 2-10 (English).
  9. ↑ Homepage Dwayne's Photo
  10. ↑ Kodachrome / Mabellene (from The Concert in Central Park) on YouTube , August 25, 2015, accessed May 15, 2018.
  11. ↑ Dwayne's Photo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  12. ↑ Sarah George: Dwayne's Photo - Element 47, 94 Elements, 2013, archived from the original on May 2, 2018 ; accessed on May 2, 2018 .