This very pretty girl, wearing a marvellously patterned jumper, has a gleam in her eye that suggests Read More
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Nerd Kid Lets Loose
I love the way this kid chooses the second frame for his breakout performance and then resumes his Read More
De Quelle Planète Est-Tu?
Through this blog I have come across other photobooth enthusiasts who share their photos online.
Meg from Denver, Colorado lives in France. At her blog De Quelle Planète Est-Tu? (What planet are you from?) she blogs about her travels and her life in Paris. She is very fond of automatic photo machines.
Below is a selection of some of the great photos from her archive of photobooth related posts, which you can see in full by clicking here.
Many thanks to Meg for permission to share these.
Linda’s Easter Bonnet
Tina’s Life Was Flying Away
The only photos on this 1940s American album page that have any information on them, give confilicting details about Read More
Marie-Louise
Due to my health problems it is many months since I ventured out at night. The ramifications of pushing myself to stay up are just too hard to endure with any frequency. But this lady is lovely Read More
Eleanor’s Memory Book
Below are scans of a tiny photo album of booth photos owned by a woman named Eleanor. Read More
Wings For a Nine Year Old
These two hand-coloured, larger size (64 x 77 mm) photobooth photos of a boy wearing an airforce Read More
Their Own Starring Roles
When previewing this post on my predominantly monochrome blog, the lurid orange of these gems came as a bit of a visual shock to the system. However, the colour is true to the originals which are in perfect condition.
Presumably a husband and wife (both photos came from the same estate), these are lenticular photos. My one other example of this rare type of photobooth item can be seen in this earlier post.
These 1940 World’s Fair Movie-Of-U souvenirs are made up of three exposures taken in succession on the same frame. The frame is placed under a lined sheet of acetate and when tilted appears to show movement. In the flat position needed to make a scan of these images, it is not possible to capture the images separately.
When in action, the movement is fluid and really looks like a mini-movie. In some ways they could be seen as a primitive version of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs) I used in earlier posts this month.
Something Of Kylie About Her
There is something about this photobooth diva that reminds me of one of national treasures, Ms Kylie Minogue. (See pictures, below.) Affectionately known in Australia, as Our Kylie, the dininutive singer has also, at various times in her career, been tagged with the honorifics Goddess of Pop, Princess of Pop, Disco Queen, and the less than flattering Singing Budgie.














