31 January 1998, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne
This was taken on the same day and in the same booth as an earlier post where I was photographed with my friend, Holly.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
I recently did a post about Meg from De Quelle Planète Est-Tu? and her love of photobooths. Through her I found another photobooth enthusiast in Paris who has blogged a list and map of locations of booths in that famous city.
The strip, above, is from her post You’re on (not so) Candid Camera! which is where you will find all the details.
Thank you to Sylvia for permission to use her images.
22 January 1998, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne
A quick strip of photobooth photos after a trip to the cinema to see The Spice Girls‘ movie Spice World. I guess it was the only film we could all agree to see, as I was never a fan of that group.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
This is an unusual polaroid photobooth set. It isn’t in the greatest of conditions but due to its rarity it is worth documenting.
I am not sure if polaroid photobooths still exist. They were certainly never common. This photo is from the USA and has no identifying information. I guess it dates from the 1990s.
The one that got away.
The one that I bought.
This wonderful young woman, Drene, appeared in numerous photos that were recently for sale on Ebay. I tried, to the extremes of my finances, to get the top photo, but missed out. I was luckier for number two.
Isn’t she a 60s Goth-Girl stunner? Did they even have Goths back then? I often look back on my youthful conservative style and wish I had had more courage to be different. This girl had no such inhibitions.
The photo I bought has “To Adele love Drene 1/11/1964” written on the back. It comes from the USA.
6 November 1997, Melbourne
I am never sure whether to count this type of booth photo as part of my chronological series as it isn’t of the same aesthetic and detail of the photos from the wonderful chemical booths. However as the old-time booths are more and more rare, and digital booths are easier to get access to, I decided to add this to the group as an early example of where booth photos were heading at this time.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
After reading the post 365 Days, 52 Weeks from WordPress’s own blog, I felt inspired to get back to
my personal chronology of booth photos, which was the inspiration for my starting this blog in 2011. I will endeavour to add at least one strip of photos from the series each week for the 52 weeks of 2013. So with that in mind, I start the year with the next in the series, below.
Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2013 is inspirational and fun for us all.
2 November 1997, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne
This strip was taken at a Melbourne train station, after I had been to visit my friend Liarne. I went to stay with her at a house she was renting at the seaside town of Torquay, where she still lives.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Thanks for all your support and great comments over the past twelve months.
I hope you are all looking forward to the holiday season as much as I am! See you all in 2013.
This very pretty girl, wearing a marvellously patterned jumper, has a gleam in her eye that suggests Read More
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.
Photobooth Journal 