1946 - Photography

Photography

The color film Ektachrome introduced by Eastman Kodak is the first that a photographer can process himself. Much faster than the Kodachrome introduced in 1935 and 1936, the new film is available initially only in transparency sheet form, but Eastman will introduce it in roll film sizes next year and increase its speed several times (see Kodacolor, 1944; Tri-X, 1954).

Condé Nast editor Alexander Liberman engages Plainfield, N.J.-born photographer Irving Penn, 29, to take black-and-white fashion pictures for Vogue magazine, whose pages will give Penn worldwide prominence. He will establish a freelance advertising photography business at New York in 1952 and continue with Vogue for decades.

Photographer Alfred Stieglitz dies at New York July 13 at age 82, survived by his widow, Georgia O'Keeffe, now 58.