Remember trying to cram that fifth person into the booth and all striking a different pose between flashes?
That little twisting stool, curtains on rails, the way the photos always pop out of a slot at the front of the booth, and high grade lighting with strobes placed below and above the camera window. I always write the date and location on the back of each strip, and then I use an Ali Edwards 3×8 Chipboard Album and 3×8 one pocket inserts to hold them in chronological order.Welcome to the home of vintage and retro photo booths One last thing, I have a system to store them that I wanted to share as well. I use website to search for vintage photobooths across not only the country, but the globe. I started a new instagram, that documents the different vintage photobooths I find, the location and date, and photos of the booth and the strips. You can see how excited I get when I find one in the photos below. The last was in 2018, and I brought Flat Stanley (named Flat Sofia) to a vintage photobooth to take a photo strip of the two of us to use in the journal I created for the project (below).Įach photobooth I encounter is different, and the exposure of the photos is different as well. One of my closest friends has three children, and I have done the Flat Stanley Project for all three of them. Below are several examples from over the years. I also tend to use them in the cover pages of my journals where I put my contact information in case the journal gets lost and found. I love to create travel journals, and for my recent trip to London this past summer, we stayed in a hotel that had a vintage photobooth in the lobby, so I made sure we took a strip every day and used them with each days journaling as shown below. Day 15 asks what was your favorite photo taken of yourself (or by you) this year. Day five’s question is 5 things I don’t want to forget, and for 2018, below, I did the 5 trips that I went on that resulted in using a vintage photobooth and used one photo from each (with more on the front page).īelow is another spread from another year’s #reverb journal. I cut myself out, and made a subpage to journal about what goes on in my head.Īnother journal I like to create is what I call a #reverb journal, where I do a prompt a day for the month of December recapping the year and setting intentions for the year to follow. In the journal below I created an insert for my Passport Size Travelers Notebook using a larger image from a vintage photobooth strip. I always scan the strips at a high resolution (at least 400 dpi) so if I wish to have them reprinted larger I can. I keep an agenda journal (more on that in the future), and whenever I encounter a vintage photobooth I note them, as shown in the spread below:
My fridge is covered with vintage photobooth strips with friends, but I also use them in my journals.
I have ones going back to when I was in high school, but started to really seek them out again as an adult about 10 years ago. All the people close to me know how much I love vintage photobooths and know that when we come across one, that they will have to sit and pose with me (and sit and wait as I pose by myself for a strip as well!).