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Photobooth: 30 Postcards | 
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| Authors: Princeton Architectural Press, Babbette Hines
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 267302
Media: Card Book
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 30
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 081184787X
EAN: 9780811847872
ASIN: 081184787X
Publication Date: June 23, 2005
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Product Description
Spontaneous, goofy, or touching there is something both strangely familiar and absolutely fresh about photobooth pictures. With this set of thirty postcards, it is as easy to imagine their stories as it is to write and send your own.
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 A real gem! June 7, 2008
I bought this book years ago and go back to it over and over again, amazed by the wonderful people inside. Virtually everyone I know has a couple shots of themselves in a photobooth from long ago. They were fun and magical. This book captures that and so much more. When I purchased it I immediately showed it to a friend. We spent hours going through it slowly, imaging the stories behind the faces. The magic of a photobooth is that the photographer is cut out of the equation. It's just you and a camera. Nobody saying "cheese". The starkness of that moment is wonderful. This book is simply delightful. Beautifully designed. A real gem.
charming January 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is exactly what I expected. If you love pcitures of people you don't know, you'll love this book.
Indispensabile August 27, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Affascinante retrospettiva, che stabilisce un punto di partenza (o arrivo?) di un particolare capitolo della storia della fotografia che non è mai stato adeguatamente considerato.
 FOR ALL ETERNITY ?? May 11, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Babbette Hines' page of reviews will likely be crowded with "CUSTOMER IMAGES". This is a book that invites participation, and reminiscing. It will send readers, laughing, to paw through drawers for their own almost-forgotten 'strips of four' . . . Photo booths did seem to give permission to be silly and inventive, and as pompous or unpretentious as one wished to be. What a wide gamut of emotions - - what an array of poses! My favorites are different each time I look through the book - those hair do's! those hats!
The "Photomaton" invented by an Italian immigrant in 1925 was quickly bought by a NY financier, tho' there must have been some kind of precursor? (One customer image shown above is definitely from the early 1900s.) Those 'models' looked into the lens expectantly & honestly, knowing there would be no retouch job, but maybe wishing that "tinting" was more affordable. What an aura of glamour it gave.
In the 30s having pictures taken was still in the "treat" category, definitely a 'lark' - - on a par with an ice cream soda date! The selection of pictures printed on the back cover of the book do not altogether reflect the collection's breadth. Inside there are many photos of black men & women, and also much less affluent persons. They DO mirror the times. I regret they do not share space on the book's cover.
"PHOTO BOOTH" is a book for sharing - - nostalgia will spill over into laughter. Imaginations may even be dusted off. (****mcHAIKU/5-10-05)
What a delight! February 15, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Curl up with a warm cup of of cappuccino by the fire and enjoy a glimpse into the private photobooth sanctuaries of another era. What a delightful book!
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