NEEDLE PACKS, PART 2
NAKKI GORANIN IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE

AMERICAN PHOTOBOOTH REVIEW AT BOOKLIST

Booklist had this to say about American Photobooth By Nakki Goranin :
Review by Ray Olson

Photobooth_man_and_neck_red_frame Like many other American Inventions, The DIY Photo-portrait machine was the brain-child  of  immigrants, each of whom approached slightly differently the challenge of putting a developing and printing lab, along with a good camera, in the same box with a sitting studio and making the whole shebang percolate at the drop of a quarter. Goranin briefly recaps the careers of those inventions, as well as  notable exploiters of the technology once it was in productions….

…the gallery of photobooth portraits Goranin has amassed and, as a photographer, contributed to, constitute the book’s big attraction. These faces of six decades are everything their autoportraitists could have hoped they would be – silly, joyous, friendly, loving, frank, naughty, honest – and charming besides. Spellbinding.

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