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papertraildiary's review against another edition
4.0
Wonderful blend of history and a personal passion: it is a biography of photobooths and Meag's life for them. Her artwork and storytelling is bang-on. More comprehensive review to come at papertraildiary.com.
meghan111's review against another edition
3.0
A lot of information and beautiful drawings of photobooths - the story wasn't that interesting to me.
saidtheraina's review against another edition
5.0
Totally fascinating history of a technology/niche culture/phenomenon, woven with the personal connections of the author.
Timely, as the author cites that chemical (as opposed to digital) photobooths are expected to go extinct in 2015 (THIS YEAR!), as the chemicals required to make them work are going to run out. One required chemical is illegal in Europe, which complicates the issue further. We have one of these rare chemical photobooths in Olympia at the Brotherhood bar downtown.
Fitzgerald includes illustrations of specific models of photobooths, as well as illustrations of many different types of strips. She talks about her connections with the photobooth community, and muses as to why she's interested in photobooths in the first place. She includes stories about traveling around the world (teaching improv), using photobooths to make art, and tracking down photobooths all over the planet for photobooth.net.
As far the execution goes, I found her drawing style engaging, and she used a wide variety of page layouts, although much of the book eschews panels and speech bubbles in favor of more freeform combinations of text and images.
One thing that niggled at me: I REALLY wanted PHOTOS in this book about photobooths. Photos of the strips, of the models... But I imagine rights on this kind of thing is a bigger monster than Fitzgerald wanted to tackle. And I'm sure it had to have been an intentional (maybe aesthetic?) decision not to mix illustrations and photos.
Timely, enjoyable, accessible.
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Extra star bc of the rareness of this kind of blend of heavy nonfic content with personal memoir, and the urgent timeliness.
Timely, as the author cites that chemical (as opposed to digital) photobooths are expected to go extinct in 2015 (THIS YEAR!), as the chemicals required to make them work are going to run out. One required chemical is illegal in Europe, which complicates the issue further. We have one of these rare chemical photobooths in Olympia at the Brotherhood bar downtown.
Fitzgerald includes illustrations of specific models of photobooths, as well as illustrations of many different types of strips. She talks about her connections with the photobooth community, and muses as to why she's interested in photobooths in the first place. She includes stories about traveling around the world (teaching improv), using photobooths to make art, and tracking down photobooths all over the planet for photobooth.net.
As far the execution goes, I found her drawing style engaging, and she used a wide variety of page layouts, although much of the book eschews panels and speech bubbles in favor of more freeform combinations of text and images.
One thing that niggled at me: I REALLY wanted PHOTOS in this book about photobooths. Photos of the strips, of the models... But I imagine rights on this kind of thing is a bigger monster than Fitzgerald wanted to tackle. And I'm sure it had to have been an intentional (maybe aesthetic?) decision not to mix illustrations and photos.
Timely, enjoyable, accessible.
Read with [b: Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays|6396118|Syncopated An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays|Brendan Burford|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320448986s/6396118.jpg|6584737]
Extra star bc of the rareness of this kind of blend of heavy nonfic content with personal memoir, and the urgent timeliness.
ivanssister's review against another edition
4.0
Meags was a guest on a recent episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself, which is how I came to this. It's part history of the photo booth, part autobiography. I'm glad I discovered this.
cherylleem's review against another edition
5.0
Fun, interesting, and captivating read about a slice of pop culture history and art. I will never pass-up a photo booth again with out stopping.
arjwalks_reads's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I love this book! Informative and personal. I’m going to buy it!
lucyblack's review against another edition
2.0
I thought this would be one of those non fiction in-depth books that although I’m not that interested in the subject the writing and art would be sufficient to keep me interested. It wasn’t one of those.
I got bored. It was too in-depth, the side stories weren’t compelling enough either. I got sick of her love for photobooths and didn’t have sympathy for her sadness that they are going away. She came across as really privileged and whiney at times.
Her art is amazing and her layouts are interesting and well done. I’d read more of her stuff just for that, hopefully she writes about stuff I like sometime.
I got bored. It was too in-depth, the side stories weren’t compelling enough either. I got sick of her love for photobooths and didn’t have sympathy for her sadness that they are going away. She came across as really privileged and whiney at times.
Her art is amazing and her layouts are interesting and well done. I’d read more of her stuff just for that, hopefully she writes about stuff I like sometime.