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(I hope I’m doing this right, CC-wise: this one is by Caterina Fake herself (www.flickr.com\/photos\/caterina\/91282844\/<\/a>). <\/center>It’s the very apotheosis of the photobooth snap, with a reflexive curveball thrown in. NB that this very photobooth in San Francisco evidently can post directly to Flickr<\/a>…) <\/p>\n
\nI’m a latecomer to the notion that there’s something deeply significant in this medium, but I want to start a thread on the side to track it. Among others whose work precedes and informs this effort, I’m especially indebted to Photobooth<\/a>, Babbette Hines’ glorious collection of “discarded images of men and women who crowded into photo booths to capture a moment on a little strip of film”. I have very few photobooth bits in my own collection, but there are two from the Joe Wilner trove<\/a>:<\/p>\n It’s paradoxical that these share something with a few of the<\/a> tintypes<\/a> –a sort of artlessness in the pose that really conveys something about the essence of the person. Consider this one: I’m still hunting for whoever has analyzed the chronotope of the photobooth experience, the 1-2-3-4 exposures, with enough time between for the subjects to alter their pose\/presentation, and about how people developed that temporal opportunity over the years. I have Babbette Hines’ book on order, and that may be just what I’m seeking.<\/p>\n \nIt’s also necessary to explore what’s already out there on the Web, and a quick Google search nets a bunch: photobooth.net<\/a> (“We aim to make this the most comprehensive photobooth resource on the internet…”), Wade’s Photobooth Gallery<\/a>, the Flickr photobooth Group<\/a>, Mr.Mixup’s Photobooth Archive<\/a> (U.K.), just to start with…<\/p>\n Anyway, this is an open thread, to which I’ll add as I learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consider this spectacular image, from this morning’s Flickr Nation:(I hope I’m doing this right, CC-wise: this one is by Caterina Fake herself (www.flickr.com\/photos\/caterina\/91282844\/). It’s the very apotheosis of the photobooth snap, with a reflexive curveball thrown in. NB that this very photobooth in San Francisco evidently can post directly to Flickr…) I’m a latecomer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/37\/82692867_dd0da49b7c_m.jpg\")
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These are probably separated in time by something like 60 years, about as much time as separates the later ones from now.<\/p>\n