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Allan Weitz

Allan Weitz

Award-winning photographer and author of "Kodachrome: How Two Guys Named Leo Changed Photography"; founding host of the B&H Photography Podcast (2015–2025).

Oct 5, 2026

3:00
So it's kind of interesting to hear that story.
3:03
Well, it used to be more so.
3:05
There used to be a magazine industry that really doesn't exist anymore.
3:09
I started off photography kind of, I was waysided by the whole thing.
3:15
I, as a child, I used to play around with clay a lot.
3:18
I was into sculpture and some people had, you know, toys.
3:22
I had clay and I would just make things out of it all the time.

33 MINS LATER

35:55
What is your definition of success and how has it changed over time?
14:03
What was the moment when you, when you realized that, that this was a story, a quote-unquote was, was a story substantially enough to become a book?
14:15
It was on my mind for a long time.
14:16
I thought it was always kind of funny that there was a song called Kodachrome, which of course I loved.
14:21
And then there was a movie about Kodachrome.
14:23
And again, Kodachrome was just a backstory for the actual story of what it was.
14:29
And I noticed that a lot of little things about it.
14:32
If you go through old National Geographic magazines, it says not Photos By, Photographs By, it says Kodachrome's By.

9 MINS LATER

23:28
And why is

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