{"id":415637,"date":"2026-02-09T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415637\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:14:13","slug":"snap-happy-a-century-of-photo-booths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415637\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap happy: a century of photo booths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Helped by a preservation movement \u2013 you can find maps of the spread of photo booths across continents \u2013 a new generation has discovered the special mechanical magic of booths: the rotating stool for height adjustment, the countdown \ufefffor getting your expression in order, the four-fold opportunity to come up with a winning grin, and the moments of expectation before the pictures are delivered. As with many mechanical inventions\ufeff, what seemed obsolete\ufeff again seems alive \u2013 photo booths on\u00a0street corners once again encouraging a night-time queue. There is a retro appeal to the resulting pictures, but also an indelible quality; as Andy Warhol\ufeff, the master of the cool vocabulary of photo booth images, \ufeffobserved: \u201c\ufeffThe best thing about a picture is that it never changes even\u00a0though the people in it do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helped by a preservation movement \u2013 you can find maps of the spread of photo booths across continents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,1293,6487,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-415637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-history","14":"tag-photography","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}