Archives: August 2009
Fake "Fur" and the Ace hits New York
August 14, 2009
We are still digging out more updates that piled up during our summer hiatus, and present a few more today. First, Stephanie was kind enough to check out the new Ace Hotel in New York City, which we reported on...
Brian | 10:16 AM | Booth Locations , Movies
Australia, Australia
August 13, 2009
For many years now, we’ve heard of a remote colony of photochemical photobooths that have survived in Australia, far from the familiar “photobooth cities” of New York, Chicago, Berlin, and Paris. We’ve seen them in music videos and TV commercials,...
Brian | 8:41 AM | Booth Locations
Lorna Simpson's "Photo Booth"
August 12, 2009
Catching up on some old news from late 2008, we heard about an art piece entitled “Photo Booth,” by American artist Lorna Simpson, which was sold to the Tate Modern at the Frieze Art Fair in London for $70,000. In...
Brian | 10:06 AM | Art , In the News
Wim Wenders in the booth
August 11, 2009
Late last year, when I was preparing my Photobooths in Cinema talk for the 2009 International Photobooth Convention, our friend Klaas sent us a scan of a photostrip. It wasn’t just any photostrip, though: it was a set of...
Brian | 8:41 AM | Movies
The Dead Weather
August 10, 2009
We’ve been seeing and hearing quite a bit about The Dead Weather recently, a new collaboration among Jack White of the White Stripes, Alison Mosshart of the Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age, and Jack Lawrence of...
Brian | 6:15 AM | Music , Projects
eBay Finds: 8 Poses for 25¢
August 9, 2009
Today we’ve got another in the sporadic series of photobooth-related nuggets we’ve come across on eBay. This set of seven photos, with one tantalizingly missing from the full complement of eight advertised on the envelope, show a striking young woman...
Brian | 10:25 AM | History
Hello, Alberta!
August 8, 2009
Just when you start to think you’re hearing more about photobooths disappearing than you are about new locations being discovered, a kind reader of our site will send in a massive update that makes you feel a little better about...
Brian | 3:58 PM | Booth Locations , Community
Portland photobooth show and more
August 2, 2009
Our trickle of new additions to the site continues, with two new locations and news of a photobooth gallery show, for those of you in the Pacific Northwest. First, thanks to Nathan for our long-awaited first-ever photobooth location in Montréal....
Brian | 4:05 PM | Art , Booth Locations , Movies
New material
August 1, 2009
We’ve posted the first of the backlog of submissions and new additions to the site since our hiatus; in the true spirit of summer, they’re locations at state fairgrounds and beachside boardwalks. Check out the black and white photobooths at...
