Archives: September 2008
TRL photobooth, 1998-2008
September 24, 2008
From a Gothamist piece this week we learn that MTV is finally shutting down TRL, a.k.a Total Request Live, that staple of the early millennial teen zeitgeist, and the reason America got to know Carson Daly, for better or worse....
Brian | 12:23 PM | Booth Locations , In the News
Wait Until Dry: Photos and report
September 23, 2008
In July, we noted an upcoming show of photobooth photos in Hamburg, Germany, called Wait Until Dry, with photos from the collection of Photobooth.net contributor Klaas Dierks as well as two other artists. Klaas has sent in photos from the...
Brian | 10:31 PM | Art , Projects
Book week, Day 7: "Photomaton"
September 14, 2008
We’re ending Book Week with an oldie but a goodie, the catalog for the ground-breaking group show called “Photomaton: A Contemporary Survey of Photobooth Art,” which took place at the Pyramid Arts Center in Rochester, New York more than twenty...
Brian | 8:38 PM | Art , History
Book week, Day 6: "Das Einfränklerimperium"
September 13, 2008
As we near the end of Book Week, we’re taking a look at another excellent recent photobooth book from Europe, Irene Stutz’s Das Einfränklerimperium. We covered the book when it was released in December of last year, but it deserves...
Brian | 6:00 PM | Booth Locations , History , Projects
Book week, Day 5: "Photobooth Collages" and "Stills"
September 12, 2008
We’re expanding the scope of Book Week to include not only new and recent works, but works that are new to us; in this case, two recently acquired exhibition catalogs of work by the best-known photobooth artist working today, Liz...
Brian | 12:17 PM | Art
Book week, Day 4: "Fotofix"
September 11, 2008
More than two years ago, we mentioned a recent book by the photobooth artist Jan Wenzel titled Fotofix. I didn’t yet have a copy of the book, but promised a review as soon as I got ahold of one. Well,...
Brian | 9:07 PM | Art , In the News , Projects
Book week, Day 3: "Formato tessera"
September 10, 2008
As Book Week continues, we bring you another invaluable work from Italy, Professor Federica Muzzarelli’s 2003 work, Formato tessera: Storia, arte e idee in photomatic. Muzzarelli, who is a professor of the History of Photography at the University of Bologna,...
Brian | 10:05 PM | Art , History , In the News
Book week, Day 2: "Photomatic e altre storie"
September 9, 2008
Covering the world of photobooths as we do from our home base in the United States, it’s often difficult for us to gauge the impact and explore the history of photobooths in other countries. We know about the present-day...
Brian | 12:08 PM | Art , History , In the News
Book week, Day 1: "Lost & Found at the Musée Mécanique"
September 7, 2008
In the first installment of a week-long look at new and recent photobooth books, we’ve got a copy of Dan Zelinsky and the Musée Mécanique’s wonderful new creation, Lost & Found at the Musée Mécanique. Styled like a pin-bound fan-style...
Brian | 10:09 PM | Art , In the News , Projects
Fall update: Boots, words, movies, TV, and a podcast
September 2, 2008
It’s time for more updates and a few random tidbits from around the photobooth world: first of all, did anyone out there know that Kenneth Cole made a style of boot named Photo Booth? Now that that game-changing piece of...
