Photo booths of the rich & famous

Tweet

Carmen Electra thinks it is a form of art.

Formerly relegated to passport and visa offices (where they have now been replaced by digitized versions or an actual person with an actual camera), the old-fashioned photo booth is making a comeback. Bars and restaurants in San Francisco and New York are using them to attract customers, and individuals are buying them for their homes. But perhaps not surprisingly it is in Hollywood where they have become the toy du jour, with celebrities installing them as permanent party gimmicks for guests who never tire of seeing themselves in close-up. “There’s no better foreplay than to have someone dive deeper into their own vanity on their own turf,” said Dave Navarro, the guitarist with Jane’s Addiction whose recent memoir, Don’t Try This at Home, features his photo-booth portrait on the book jacket and many photo strips inside.

Photo booths develop a new following