Generally relegated to the realm of kitsch, the history and cultural importance of the photobooth has long been overlooked. Here, Nakki Goranin documents the invention, technological evolution and commercial history of the photobooth. Complementing this history is a powerful collection of heartbreaking, funny and absolutely beautiful photobooth images culled from twenty-five years of collecting.

These often solitary figures-seeking freedom, confession, a thrill-are evocative of a lost time and place.