2025 is the 100th anniversary of the invention of the analogue photobooth by Anatol Josepho and The Photographers’ Gallery is hosting an exhibition to celebrate. Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth looks back on the history of the photobooth, from its initial invention to its everyday adoption around the world. A combined studio and lab in one, the photobooth made photography accessible and affordable to all, requiring no technical knowledge to operate. The exhibition charts the photobooth’s initial popularity (the first one in NYC was used by 7500 people in its first five days) to its ubiquitousness in the 1950s and 1960s (when they were used by regular people, celebs and artists like Andy Warhol) to the resurgence of analogue booths around the world following their disappearance after the rise of digital photography. Archive prints, vintage strips and materials will all be on display and there’ll be a booth for you to take your own pics in, with live feed running so you can see the mechanics of the booth in action.
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