Kodak announced on Monday that it will be discontinuing production of Kodachrome slide film. Kodachrome was the first commercially available color film. Many of the most iconic images in the history of (color) photo were captured on Kodachrome. To read an article about the end of the Kodachrome era click on this link to the NY Times article. The Kodak website currently features a small slideshow of some of the iconic Kodachrome images from the last 74 years. Steve McCurry's photo of an Afghan girl (above) was shot on Kodachrome.
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