In 1925, Anatol Josepho invented the automated photo booth in New York City, originally calling it a photomaton. Nearly a century later, historians say only 200 working analog photo booths are left.

A photo booth on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is drawing long lines of young people who yearn for physical media. Jaylee Witcher, Hope Freedman and Maddie Feldman in Old Friend Photobooth on a ...

Is it the grainy texture? The spontaneous poses? The analog nostalgia? Whatever the reason, people love photo booth portraits—and no, we don’t mean digital printouts, but the old-school ones ...