THE PHOTOBOOTH BLOG

April, 2005

April 08, 2005

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Bob Kevoian, co-host of the nationally syndicated morning radio show The Bob & Tom Show, got married this past weekend. The Indianapolis Star reports that the reception featured lots of great local music and a photobooth.

April 05, 2005

sentinel_article.jpgIf Defamer thought the Times article was a buzzkill, wait ’till they read what the Orlando Sentinel has to say; let’s just say it involves comparing photobooths to “apple pie and baseball.” Titled “Back in the Picture,” the article in today’s Lifestyle section highlights some Orlando-area booths at Bar-B-Q-Bar and Eye Spy, and interviews the twenty- and thirty-somethings who use them. It also features words from Gary Gulley, once again, as well as Paul Kadillak, Babette Hines, and Nakki Goranin, “author of the forthcoming Photobooth Century: The History and Art of Photobooths of America.” Is this the book we’d been talking about, Tim?

The article mentions the requisite films (though it also manages to keep alive the myth that a photobooth makes an appearance in Parenthood, when it’s actually a photo developing stand) and gives a (very) brief history of the development of photobooths. Thank goodness we’re around to make note of everyone else making note of photobooths, that’s all I have to say.

April 04, 2005

A recent article in City Pages laments the change in ownership of local Minneapolis/St. Paul musical venue The Turf Club, but notes the “photo booth that launched a thousand romances” will persist. The broken photobooth (experienced by Mr. Meacham in November of 2004) seems to have been fixed (or so says the guy answering the phone there).

April 03, 2005

holly_solomon.jpgAn Artdaily.com preview of the upcoming Christie’s New York Spring 2005 Photographs sale includes a mention of the well-known Holly Solomon photobooth photos. The set of six strips, taken at photobooths at 47th and Broadway in 1963 and 1964, is expected to fetch $40,000-$60,000 when the auction takes place April 26. The Warhol piece at right, a painting over silkscreened images, was adapted from one photo taken during Warhol and Solomon’s photobooth sessions. Asked about these sessions, Solomon, who died in 2002, said, “We went to Broadway and 47th Street, where they had this photobooth. Andy met me there, and we had a bunch of quarters. He was very particular about which booth. We tried a whole bunch of them… Actually, if you’re in a photobooth for a long time it gets pretty boring…” For more from Solomon on these photos, read this International Center of Photography article.

Brian | 3:30 pm | Art