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photo booth

vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor
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photo booth

Summary

photo booth ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,592 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • photo booth is credited with the discovery of Anatol Josepho[2].
  • photo booth is operated by vending machine operator[3].
  • photo booth is a type of automaton[4].
  • photo booth is a type of facility[5].
  • photo booth's Commons category is recorded as Photo booths[6].
  • 1936 marks the founding of photo booth[7].
  • photo booth's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=photo_booth[8].
  • photo booth's different from is recorded as photo booth[9].
  • photo booth's different from is recorded as Photo Booth[10].
  • photo booth's different from is recorded as Photo Booth[11].
  • photo booth's different from is recorded as Photo Booth[12].
  • photo booth's different from is recorded as Photomaton Parent Corporation Limited[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include automaton[4] and facility[5].

Origins

1936 marks the founding of photo booth[7].

Why It Matters

photo booth ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,592 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). photo booth. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/photo-booth
MLA “photo booth.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/photo-booth.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_photo-booth_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{photo booth}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/photo-booth}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 9d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → photo booth, Photo Booth, Photo Booth +2
    P14692 → Q6262
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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