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Photobooth History
According to Tom Lehrer's tongue-in-cheek song, "Lobachevsky",
scholarship is really a matter of stealing from more than one source
"only be sure always to call it please, research"
Wade Tinney has a wonderful Photobooth history at:
http://www.photobooth.org/history/index.html
He, in turn, cites an essay written by Bern Boyle for the
catalogue of a photobooth exhibit that took place in the
East Village (NYC) in 1987
I appreciate their contributions to my "research"
- 1872 "Photography takes the human form" Edward Estabrooke wrote in
'The Ferrotype and How to Make It'
- 1883 Percival Everett invented the first commercially viable
coin-operated vending machine
- 1887 the Adam Gum Company installed machines that sold Tutti-Frutti on
the El platforms [stations of the elevated subway lines] in New York City
- 1889 Mathew Stiffens patented an automatic photography machine
- 1889 Monsieur Enjalbert demonstrated a tintype machine at the
Exposition Universelle in Paris
- 1925 Anatol Josepho, patented his "Photomaton"
It Produced a strip of 8 photographs of good quality in 8 minutes.
His prototype was built in a Harlem loft.
The first photobooth studio was at Broadway and 51st Street in New York City.
- 1927 Josepho sold the rights to his invention for the considerable sum of $1,000,000
to a group of businessmen planning to establish 70 of these mechanical studios at Coney
Island, Atlantic City and strategic points throughout the United States by the end of the
first year, hoping to "do in the photographic field what Woolworth has accomplished
in novelties"
- 1934 A photobooth photo was taken of Anne Frank. Later, this is used as the cover of a book about her.
- 1946 Gupp Allen and ID Baker develop THEIR booth
- 1958 Photo-Me Studios Ltd is formed in the UK
- 1960s Andy Warhol began using photobooth portraits in artwork
- 1976 Colour photos are now approved for UK passports
- 1997 Isis developed a sticker photo booth
- 1993 Photo-Me and Kis (a French Company) PhotoVision booth
- 1998 Photo-Me acquires ProntoPhoto making it the biggest manufacturer in the industry
- 2006 Pergola brings modern, solid engineering and software craftsmanship
to the UK and offers a new, insightful standard of service to the bespoke
Event industry.
Photobooths are voted the most innovative new product idea in the Event Industry
at the Square Meals Venue & Events show in September.
Pergola coins the term Photoconcierge™ to embody the service ideal we aspire to
and the high standards we adhere to.
- 2007 Pergola again breaks new ground by creating its bespoke fundraising
activity "A night at the opera"
- Pergola appears on the "What's Hot" page of RSVP Magazine
- Some other Pergola fans:
Grove Magazine, Yorkshire Brides and You and Your Wedding
- 2008
Yet again, Pergola breaks new ground by offering a photobooth
that leads the industry with new product offerings:
- A Pergola party Photo Booth for School Year Books
- Charities find a Pergola Party Booth a creative tool for fund raising.
- Pergola participates in a Wedding documentary by ITV Wales.
- 2009
In what has become a company tradition, Pergola continues to break
new ground by offering a photobooth with unheard of features that are
exclusive to Pergola:
A Pergola Photoconcierge Desk™ provides:
- Creative Reprints and Enlargements
- Dog tags, iron-on-transfer sheets, coffee mugs and a broad array of other options.
- WristPics
- Bespoke Table Wine Hang Tags!
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Our WristPics
are USB memory sticks on a wrist band that your guests
can use to take their pics home to load onto Facebook!
You use it to distribute sales material.
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Bespoke Table Wine
Hang Tags!
You can send us an image in advance so they grace your tables as
the guests arrive or we can do them on the night as a unique wedding
favour using the terrific pictures from the booth!
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After the party, here is another Pergola Exclusive that is truly unusual and totally charming :
Mosaic Tapestries.
Pergola creates a modern interpretation of
two ancient arts by offering "Mosaic Tapestries".
It is a Mosaic because we treat each image from the Photobooth as if it
is a tile in a mosaic. It is a tapestry because we can print the result on
three foot long rolls of Canvas!
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2010
As you would expect of Pergola, this was a year that
started with innovation!
Another Pergola idea takes flight with
Bespoke Paper Airplane Gliders
Great for
team building
too!
Who but Pergola would would come up with this one?
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Pergola - the Party Photo Booth Company - has joined forces with
Steel City Casino to create "something fresh, something new" . . .
Casino Party Photobooths!
How does it work? I'm glad you asked!
Click the image to learn more.
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