Two Surrealists, an Abstract Impressionist, and a Prostitute Walk into a Photo Booth

June 29th, 2004 · No Comments

Check out this interesting Guardian feature on a new exhibition in Basel featuring some early photo booth photographs. The photographs are of André Breton and his friends, who included René Magritte, Luis Buñuel, and Max Ernst, among others, taken in the first “photomat” in Paris, brought there in 1928, three years after it was invented by Anatol Josepho. See some of the images in the exhibition on the Art Basel site, and also take a look at this auction catalogue which, no thanks to my poor French, seems to be advertising the sale of some of Breton’s photo booth strips in 2003 (for around €10000).

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