Kodachrome Toronto

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About Kodachrome Toronto

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WHAT?
This group is meant to do exactly what it sounds like!

The Kodachrome Toronto Flickr pool is part of an ongoing research project to chronicle a thorough story, time line, and urban history of Toronto's evolution through Kodachrome film. At present, we have pool items dating back to 1943 and up to 2010. Kodachrome as a home movie film was first put on sale on 15 April 1935 and final processing was terminated on 30 December 2010 (the last Kodachrome shot in Toronto and sent for processing was at 6:42p on Wednesday, 29 December 2010).

BACKGROUND
We were given until the end of December 2010 to process our remaining films. Now it's over — forever. But what we all captured in our own journeys will last generations longer than the digital-only media we've created. Grouped together, these slide photos will illustrate the most complete impression of Toronto's second century using a single colour medium. Each photo helps to create the composite of a running narrative about what the living city of Toronto is and how it got to where we are today.

THIS POOL'S PURPOSE
Your contributions to this go-to place for seeing all of Toronto in Kodachrome are welcomed. Ideally, having every Kodachrome slide of Toronto on Flickr in one place is something this pool is meant to do. If you have any Kodachrome slides taken in Toronto or around the GTA, please add them here! They can be from any year. They can be of people and of places, public or private. They can be of events and of things. They don't have to have landmarks in view. Toronto is so much more than the built form we see around us. Toronto is also the people who make it what it is.

Best yet, there is no limit to how many Kodachrome shots you can include here — just so long as whatever you add did originate as Kodachrome film media and was not digitally manipulated to a shadow of its original self. The wider this pool becomes, the more thorough a composite of Toronto will emerge. This diversification will happen in real-time for everyone to appreciate!

Be sure to mention the year your photo was taken and the rough location! And most importantly, tag it as a "Kodachrome". If you know the film's code, tag it too (e.g., ISO25 is KM/PKM; ISO64 is KR/PKR; ISO200 is KL/PKL; ISO40 is KPA, etc.).

CINE KODACHROME
Home movies shot with Kodachrome 8mm or 16mm (up to 90 seconds in length) can also be added here.

DISCLAIMER, RULES, AND FINAL NOTE
It helps if you shot the photos yourself, but if you came across some old Kodachrome slides in Great Uncle Al's basement or an estate sale, you are welcome to post them here as long as you give attribution to the photographer (or mention that it was shot by somebody else) in your photo description. Photos lacking this may be removed to discourage improper attribution. Please respect the rights management of the respective photographers.

ABOUT THE POOL'S ADMIN
Astrid (accozzaglia) is principal researcher of the Kodachrome Toronto: 1935–2010 supervised research project (SRP) and graduate student in urban design at McGill University's School of Urban Planning (SoUP). As a professional school, she receives no funding from SoUP in the form of grants, scholarships, or aid packages and is financing her work entirely with government loans. She is an enthusiastic film photographer learning not only urban design principles in a historical context, but also as an emerging archivist with a goal of continuing her SRP as both a Ph.D. teaching experience and a future book project on the social, economic, and cultural urban history of Toronto's second century through Kodachrome film.

Photography is basically a way to keep sane throughout all the academic insanity.

RELATED SITES
Continuing research for this project generally is coupled with a blog, Kodachrome Toronto: 1935–2010. The blog keeps abreast of new research findings, highlights particular Kodachrome examples, and communicates with the community at large. It is loosely related to this Flickr pool (i.e., both came from the same inspiration), but it functions separately and beyond the Flickr pool's mandate. Occasionally, the blog will draw attention to a featured Flickr photo from the pool, and attribution is always given. There is also a companion Twitter feed called @KodachromeTO, regularly updated with items and relevant news too pithy for blog entries.

http://kodachrometoronto.wordpress.com/