Archives: September 2006
Mass Update: North Shore arcade
September 30, 2006
In between road trips this summer, each of which netted one solitary photobooth sighting (here and here), I spent a brief afternoon traversing Massachusetts’ North Shore in search of a few remaining locations I hadn’t had the chance to visit...
Brian | 7:45 PM | Booth Locations
Photo-Me fined for toxic mistakes
When I read the title of this article, “£100K Fine for Burns Photo Firm,” I expected the piece to be about a photobooth company named “Burns Photo, Inc.,” or something along those lines. But then I realized that I was...
Brian | 12:42 PM | In the News
Famous in the booth: James Dean and Edie Sedgwick
September 28, 2006
Two notable items from the world of eBay this week: first, a framed set of two photos purported to be of a young (18 year-old) James Dean. The photos, dated 1949, feature a Photomat label from the Terminal Arcade in...
Brian | 8:19 PM | In the News
TeachingPhoto.com: The Photobooth
September 26, 2006
Photobooth.net’s own resident expert Tim is the author of a recent piece featured on TeachingPhoto, “a newsletter for photography and imaging educators.” The article, titled “The Photobooth: Timeless Self-Portrait Vending Machine,” is a concise history of the photobooth, a survey...
Brian | 6:01 PM | In the News
Kansas 'Photo Booth Project' closing soon
September 18, 2006
Paul Hudson, owner of Lawrence Photo in Lawrence, Kansas, has created a “replica of a curtained photo booth” with a live photographer and the results printed on a postcard, as part of an event called “The Photo Booth Project,” open...
Brian | 1:45 PM | Projects
Photobooths as 'frat boy excuse'
September 16, 2006
In a review of downtown LA’s Bar 107, which is next on our to-do list for its photobooth, Gridskipper mention’s the bar’s booth, and then goes on to define the photobooth in general as “the best frat boy excuse for...
Brian | 11:34 AM | Booth Locations
Famous in the booth: the Kennedys
We don’t have an image of the photobooth photo yet, but the Poughkeepsie Journal reports that a new book of photographs called The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot includes a photobooth shot of the future President and First Lady. Among the...
Brian | 9:28 AM | History
LA Weekly highlights new artists
September 8, 2006
The cover story of this week’s LA Weekly features “emerging artists” with photos of each artist taken in a photobooth. The piece, titled “Afterschool Art,” features black and white photobooth pictures from all of the artistst profiled. For the most...
Brian | 8:10 PM | Art , In the News
The 'funny, honest, unrepeatable' photobooth
September 4, 2006
The traditional photobooth is the subject of a brief piece posted in the new sundayheraldtalk, the Sunday Herald’s “new place to debate issues affecting Scotland, the UK and the world.” In the editorial, titled “Life’s a cycle, but nothing this...
