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| Photobooth | 
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| Author: Babbette Hines
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 362990
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1568983816
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2
EAN: 9781568983813
ASIN: 1568983816
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Product Description
In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos, hoping to cling to memories or moments in a world turned upside down. But by the 1960s the advent of Polaroid photography spelled the doom of the "four strip" that had become a fixture at arcades and drugstores everywhere. The recent resurgence of photo sticker machines has recaptured the fun and intimacy of the photobooth. With no photographer to please, people are at liberty to be whoever they like: brave or sexy, cocksure or wise, without fear of censure or ridicule. Free in the certainty of their solitude, families, couples young and old, best friends, and individual after individual have presented to the camera both real and imagined selves for three-quarters of a century. Photobooth presents over 700 such photographs from the last 75 years, images at turns spontaneous and uninhibited, often goofy, and occasionally touching. It is a fascinating portrait of everyday people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with both the process and the result.
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 A real gem! June 7, 2008
I bought this book years ago and go back to it over and over again, amazed by the wonderful people inside. Virtually everyone I know has a couple shots of themselves in a photobooth from long ago. They were fun and magical. This book captures that and so much more. When I purchased it I immediately showed it to a friend. We spent hours going through it slowly, imaging the stories behind the faces. The magic of a photobooth is that the photographer is cut out of the equation. It's just you and a camera. Nobody saying "cheese". The starkness of that moment is wonderful. This book is simply delightful. Beautifully designed. A real gem.
charming January 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is exactly what I expected. If you love pcitures of people you don't know, you'll love this book.
Indispensabile August 27, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Affascinante retrospettiva, che stabilisce un punto di partenza (o arrivo?) di un particolare capitolo della storia della fotografia che non e mai stato adeguatamente considerato.
 FOR ALL ETERNITY ?? May 11, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Babbette Hines' page of reviews will likely be crowded with "CUSTOMER IMAGES". This is a book that invites participation, and reminiscing. It will send readers, laughing, to paw through drawers for their own almost-forgotten 'strips of four' . . . Photo booths did seem to give permission to be silly and inventive, and as pompous or unpretentious as one wished to be. What a wide gamut of emotions - - what an array of poses! My favorites are different each time I look through the book - those hair do's! those hats!
The "Photomaton" invented by an Italian immigrant in 1925 was quickly bought by a NY financier, tho' there must have been some kind of precursor? (One customer image shown above is definitely from the early 1900s.) Those 'models' looked into the lens expectantly & honestly, knowing there would be no retouch job, but maybe wishing that "tinting" was more affordable. What an aura of glamour it gave.
In the 30s having pictures taken was still in the "treat" category, definitely a 'lark' - - on a par with an ice cream soda date! The selection of pictures printed on the back cover of the book do not altogether reflect the collection's breadth. Inside there are many photos of black men & women, and also much less affluent persons. They DO mirror the times. I regret they do not share space on the book's cover.
"PHOTO BOOTH" is a book for sharing - - nostalgia will spill over into laughter. Imaginations may even be dusted off. (****mcHAIKU/5-10-05)
What a delight! February 15, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Curl up with a warm cup of of cappuccino by the fire and enjoy a glimpse into the private photobooth sanctuaries of another era. What a delightful book!
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