I have been trying to track one of these down for some time. The Pyramid Arts Center (now known as The Rochester Contemporary) in Rochester, NY had an exhibit entitled Photomaton: A Contemporary Survey of Photobooth Art in the late 80s. A copy of the catalog is being hawked on eBay. (hands off Mark Mothersbaugh) I am presently coordinating a snipe attempt. Update in 8 days, 19 hours.

If you find yourself in Edinburgh in the next few months, head over to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for the

Andy Warhol Self-Portraits exhibition, which opened this week. A review of the show in the Herald gives an overview of the pieces in the exhibit, which include Warhol’s famous photobooth self-portraits.

The exhibition closes May 2.

Another article on the exhibition, from Scotland on Sunday, mentions Warhol’s “early works and the original photo-booth snapshots on which they were based.”

Inspired by conceptual artist Pierre Bismuth’s nomination, alongside Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for their work on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Artforum Magazine this week took a brief look at “Conceptual Art at the Oscars.”

While Bismuth’s work behind the scenes of the film has received recognition, the article points out that is has not always been so. Der Fotomatonreparateur (The photobooth repairman) by German art collective Die Tödliche Doris, is given as an example of an instance in which conceptual art has likely inspired a film (in this case, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie), but has not been recognized. 

See the Photobooths in Movies and TV entries for Eternal Sunshine and Amélie. Also check out more examples of photobooths in art.