[Teen Posing in Photo Booth]

CultureUnknown
Titles
  • [Teen Posing in Photo Booth]
Date1954
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (14.9 × 3.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (14.9 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.137.5.440
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThe first photo booths were installed at Photomaton Studio, at Broadway and 51st Street in New York, in September 1925. Approximately 7,500 people a day patronized the booths, resulting in 280,000 customers in the first six months. Soon, photo booths became ubiquitous, found at corner shops and around the world. With the curtain drawn, the booth became a private space for sitters to act out humor, lust, or elegance.
ProvenanceBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black ink, verso, top: 14 years // old // 1954

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