Photobooth

by Babbette Hines

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568983816
• ISBN13: 9781568983813
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary