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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. One of them has made its way to downtown Manhattan. After having traveled to Paris and seen street-accessible analog photo booths, Zoë Lazerson, 27, and Brandon Minton, 25, questioned why there are so few booths available in their home city, New York. “It is the earliest selfie,” Lazerson said.
“In the early digital era, kind of very late ’90s or early 2000s, these major photo booth companies were jumping at the gun to switch out these analog machines and replace them with digital ones,” she said. Some booths were effectively zombified, maintaining their retro look on the exterior but with replaced digital parts inside. Others were trashed entirely and ended up in landfills. “With that, a lot of knowledge of how to service the photo booths died,” Fitzgerald said.
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