"Inside, you'll find six fully restored vintage booths, a rare collection considering there are fewer than 200 still working worldwide. Each one is operational, so visitors can create their own strips for $8 a pop, complete with quirks like color chemistry prints, three-up wide paper photos and even an original Polaroid booth. "With fewer than 200 working photobooths left worldwide, we believe it takes a community of owners, technicians and fans to keep this tactile, timeless art form alive," AUTOPHOTO notes."
"The museum doubles as a gallery and archive, spotlighting photobooth culture from its beginnings in the 1920s with inventor Anatol Josepho. Opening exhibits include never-before-seen artifacts on loan from Josepho's family, plus a display of celebrity photostrips featuring everyone from Michael Jackson to Serena Williams. There's also a stop-motion film project by artist and technician Rachel Rowe and The Photobooth Technicians Project, a five-year oral history packed into accordion-fold chapters that nod to the endless paper strips (and occasional paper jams) every booth operator knows too well."
AUTOPHOTO opens at 121 Orchard Street on October 11 as a Lower East Side museum and gallery dedicated to photobooth culture. The space is female-founded, analog-first, and features six fully restored, operational vintage booths—part of fewer than 200 still functioning worldwide—where visitors can make photostrips for $8. Exhibits trace photobooth history from the 1920s and include artifacts on loan from Anatol Josepho’s family, celebrity strips, a stop-motion film project, and a five-year oral-history Photobooth Technicians Project presented in accordion-fold chapters. The venue also plans a Vegas-style Sure Thing micro-wedding chapel offering black-and-white photostrip ceremonies.
Read at Time Out New York
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