Archives: May 2006
Rice University photobooth yearbook, 1970
May 31, 2006
Ever since owning my first photobooth I have been trying to get a school or church to let me set the booth up on premises and create their yearbook or directory. Well, as you might have guessed, I am about...
Tim | 4:56 PM | Art
Lifematon
May 30, 2006
Lifematon, a new French website dedicated to collecting photobooth photos, has been added to our Projects section this week. The site states that its goal is to “collect the largest possible number of photo booth photos. So, no need to...
Brian | 8:13 AM | Projects
The 400 faces of Tomoko Sawada
May 28, 2006
A new addition to the Photobooth.net Art section this week is 29 year-old Japanese artist Tomoko Sawada. Sawada is best known for her piece ID-400, a collection of 400 “single photo-booth images rephotographed, multiplied times four and arranged in squares,...
Brian | 10:31 AM | Art , In the News
Maryland update
May 27, 2006
Thanks to Ricky, our listings for photobooths in Maryland has tripled, with the addition of two color booths in the Beltway Mall in Greenbelt, MD. Booth I and booth II are typical modern Photo-Me booths, and each runs $3 a...
Brian | 9:27 AM | Booth Locations
Broken photobooth brings back memories
May 26, 2006
As reported in ThisIsWiltshire.com, a man stopped in the manager’s office in a shopping center in Trowbridge, England, this week, to report that the photobooth was “on the blink,” only to spot a photograph of his mother, working in the...
Brian | 10:38 PM | In the News
History in the photobooth
May 25, 2006
We’ve often thought of assembling a show or book made up of well-known people in photobooth photos, less along the lines of the MTV Photobooth celebrity-fest and more a collection of photos of people before they were well-known, or photos...
Brian | 8:20 AM | History
A painter and a project
May 22, 2006
Another artist has been added to the list here at Photobooth.net, an American painter named Lordan Bunch. Bunch, who has exhibited his work around the world over the last few years, makes small, photo-realistic paintings adapted from old photobooth photos....
Brian | 6:28 PM | Art , Projects
A visit to Sylvan Beach
May 15, 2006
This weekend found us heading to the amusement park at Sylvan Beach on Oneida Lake, north of Syracuse, New York. Thanks to the ever-useful LiveJournal photobooth community, I had heard there were a few booths there, and indeed, we found...
Brian | 7:47 PM | Booth Locations
Movie additions from Paris and Spain
May 14, 2006
More additions from the backlog of “to do” items, this time, two films with photobooth appearances. First, Paris, Texas, one of at least three Wim Wenders films to feature a photobooth or photostrip (we’ve already got his Faraway, So Close!...
Brian | 6:23 PM | Movies
Jan Wenzel's Fotofix
May 10, 2006
Photo-London, billed as “London’s first international photography fair,” opens next week, offering thousands of photographs for sale to the public. A preview of the show from the Times of London describes the breadth of the show, and includes a mention...
Brian | 8:02 AM | Art , In the News
The P.I. and the photomaton
May 8, 2006
Last year, I began searching French eBay for photobooth (or photomaton) items, such as the photobooth stool I noted last April. One of the items I mention in that entry is a publicity brochure for Photomaton, the French manufacturers of...
Brian | 4:10 PM | Art
Random Google of the day: Plaster
May 7, 2006
Last year, after reaching what I thought was the end of the line for appearances of photobooths in film documented or mentioned on the web, I started searching with other key words thrown in, so instead of continually searching for...
Brian | 10:50 AM | Projects , Site News
Once a week for six years
May 6, 2006
Odile Marchoul, creator of the project she calls La photo-sculpture, has taken a photobooth photo every week since 1999. The photos, always in a set of four square, taken by a digital “Photo-Vision” booth, trace a remarkable timeline of subtle...
Brian | 8:09 AM | Projects
Stephen Fretwell in the booth
May 5, 2006
It all started with a Google search, as most things do, these days. I was looking for more videos featuring photobooths - you know they’re out there - and I came across this post on cinematography.net from a director of...
Brian | 4:55 PM | Music
'Life Imitates Music' but needs a photobooth to do it
May 4, 2006
As the mini posting spree continues, a result of what seems like a now-monthly resolution to “post more of that stuff that’s otherwise just sitting around” during a slow news week, we have “Life Imitates Music,” a 2002 MTV commercial...
Brian | 7:32 PM | TV
Rideal's Kerfuffle at the BBC, 2004
May 3, 2006
Back in February, when we posted a note about Liz Rideal’s photoboothed plants on display in Philadelphia, we were suprised to come across another example of Rideal’s photobooth work we’d not heard of before. Somehow, in front of our watchful...
Brian | 4:32 PM | Art
From K to J's Photobooth
May 1, 2006
The photobooth described on the From K to J: About the Booth page sounds fascinating and wonderful. After taking photos of the occupant, the booth adds its own contribution to the photos: The booth is presented in semi-public spaces as...
