A line of night owls snaked around a Lower East Side block, waiting to get into not a bar or a club but a box on the sidewalk — a photo booth. From behind the curtain, flashes popped and squeals of ...
In 1925, Anatol Josepho invented the automated photo booth in New York City, originally calling it a photomaton. Nearly a century later, historians say only 200 working analog photo booths are left.