One of my favorite sites, Photojojo, has a roundup of a few different photobooths (they forgot us). The first is very similar to Party People Photos, in that it uses projection to display the shots immediately and has been installed in another museum.
The ability to print photos is a nice touch, since the only thing people like more than seeing themselves on the screen is getting some free personalized schwag to take with them. Of course, if someone really wanted to, they could visit our Flickr page to download and print a photo on their own. The photo’s from Mark’s setup at the Whitney also have a very nice lighting quality, much like ours, which makes all the difference in the world. Their photos are more true to form of the old style black and white photobooth, whereas ours are a more modern fashion-esque interpretation. It also looks like Mark’s setup was a more self contained, appliance-like box rather than the more ad-hoc approach we used. Perhaps we can use the instructions to make our own for the Kara Walker Preview Party. I hope to have automatic uploading to Flickr part of the installation at that point, too.
And, just to make a friendly jab at the Whitney, our installation was three days before theirs. Neener Neener. Sadly, I didn’t see any photos of Ivanka Trump at our party. In Minnesota, we’ve got Al Franken or Prince, neither of which showed up.
Very neat, Justin! Would love to do a blurb about the next incarnation of your project on Photojojo Uncut. Let me know when you guys get there!
Amit
http://www.photojojo.com
Comment by Amit Gupta — 11/30/2006 @ 5:31 pm
Nice…we’re a bit behind here in Milwaukee…
Comment by ArtzMom — 12/2/2006 @ 10:02 pm
I love these photobooth installations and also love the idea of a photobooth that automatically uploads to Flickr. I think a club (Shine SF?) in san francisco has such a photobooth, and they have thousands of photos in their flickr…
I came across a website where you can shoot photobooth pictures online with a webcam (in strips of 4). It’s very fun, but I wished they also start doing flickr uploads.
Comment by sami yalcin — 7/4/2007 @ 5:00 pm