We’ve seen him beat up a guy into a photobooth (photobooth.net/movies_tv/inde…), but thanks to Christian, now we have a true meeting of two of the world’s greatest treasures, the photobooth and Bud Spencer (Bud Spencer Official): BANANA JOE (1982). photobooth.net/movies_tv/inde…

New Ace Hotel, new photochemical photobooth. Welcome to the club, Ace Hotel Brooklyn! Thanks to Emma, who visited the booth on the hotel’s opening weekend, for the tip and photos. photobooth.net/locations/inde…

In the 1924 short POSTAGE DUE, Willy Worst (Stan Laurel) poses in an Auto Foto machine. This 1910s precursor to the photobooth took a single photo in a brass frame for 10¢. This marks the earliest appearance of an automated photo machine we’ve yet seen. photobooth.net/movies_tv/inde…

Merry Christmas! We received a copy of Paul McCartney’s “The Lyrics” as a gift yesterday, through not the Very Limited Edition spotted on The Beatles Blog, which uses a torn photobooth photo of Paul to illustrate the cover of Volume 2, L-Z: beatlesblogger.com/2021/09/25/mcc…

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Photo booths had a unique ability to capture some of our silliest and most intimate moments, leaving us with a precious record of time macleans.ca/culture/photo-…

Read Tatum Dooley’s thoughtful piece on photobooths for Maclean’s, featuring everyone’s favorite intermittently updated photobooth website.

Big news! The Huntington has acquired the archive of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), a Los Angeles author and integral member of the 1960s and ’70s art, literary, and rock music scenes. ⭐ Learn more: bit.ly/3KAdCgi

A spring update on photobooths in Paris, with six working booths around the city. Inside, outdoors, in parks, shops, and galleries, the booths of Paris are going strong. photobooth.net/archive/2022/0…

Au revoir, Jean-Louis Trintignant. photobooth.net/movies_tv/inde…

Did a speed run of all five analog booths in Florence in under two hours. Congratulations to Matteo and Fotoautomatica for some amazing locations and beautiful booths turning our great photos! Full report to come.

For someone who has researched, solicited, and cataloged tips on analog photobooth locations for the last 20 years, what a delight to stumble upon an unknown and unexpected location in the wild. Thanks to Aimee for spotting it, and cheers to Antique Emporium in Kingston, Ontario.

RIP Clu Gulager, seen here in a photobooth in a 1959 episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” photobooth.net/movies_tv/tvsh…

The rumors of the death of Canadian analog photobooths have been (slightly) exaggerated: photobooth.net/archive/2022/0…

RIP JLG

RIP JLG, pt. 2

The European photobooth renaissance continues with five new analog(ue) photobooths in London, which now boasts eight active booths. New listings include the Hoxton Holborn, Breakfast Club Canary Wharf, Kingly Court, Coal Drops Yard, and Hackney Bridge. photobooth.net/locations/sear…

Vintage Photo Booths Are Back, and Baffling Newbies. ‘It’s Not an iPad.’ - WSJ wsj.com/articles/vinta…

A lovely obituary of a fascinating person, but what does it mean to have photobooth portraits of someone “taken by” someone else, rather than themselves, or the machine itself? nytimes.com/2022/12/04/boo…