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Why Photo Booth Rentals Are Surging In An Age Of Instagram

The old-fashioned photo booth shouldn’t even exist in an age of Snapchat and Instagram. Why pay for grainy mugshot-style selfies with questionable lighting when you can filter, fade and tilt-shift your pics for free and post them to the world? And yet: the photo booth resurgence.

The automated selfie-taker has been around almost a century and was popular from the get-go. An enterprising Russian immigrant to New York named Anatol Josepho introduced the first booth on Broadway in 1925, and 280,000 people used it during its first six months. Josepho sold the invention for a million dollars two years later while continuing to make royalties on sales of the Photomaton, as he called it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhochman/2016/11/17/why-photo-booth-rentals-are-surging-in-an-age-of-instagram/