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Kodachrome

American  
[koh-duh-krohm] / ˈkoʊ dəˌkroʊm /
Trademark.
  1. a brand of positive color transparency.


noun

  1. (lowercase) a positive color transparency.

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Besides Kodachrome film and a Leica camera, Mr. Eggleston had an ace up his sleeve when producing his images: the dye-transfer process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“He got stories from them. He took Kodachrome color slides. They would talk about this relative from California who drove a nice rental car and wore good clothes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Those shared traits coalesced into Cuffey finding himself with more than 100,000 photos, including about 70,000 Kodachrome slides that he had taken from 1985 through 2009 using cameras outfitted with manual Olympus and Nikon lenses.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

And among the many items restored especially for the exhibition is an early 1960s Kodachrome slide showing Dorfman and his mother, Jeanette, with their Harley-Davidson motorbikes.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2022

She talked art with the older students, and they told her what they were working on, why they preferred knife to brush or acrylic to oil, or Fujicolor to Kodachrome.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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