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TIL In 2010 Kodak discontinued the famed Kodachrome film. The last roll was shot by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry best known for his portrait ‘Afghan Girl’. The last 36 slides captured images around New York and a tribe in India on the verge of extinction.

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