Popularity of photo booths

Despite a digital era in which you can shoot a photo with your phone, the old-fashioned photo booth is still snapping away those four-segment strips. But in the last five years, they have migrated from arcades and malls to tony weddings, corporate parties and vogue restaurants. Why do booths continue to delight? In that "crazy small space," you get "only four chances," said Miles Orvell, a professor of English and American studies at Temple. "It's kind of like a little performance space — and you're on. So, it's exciting. It's like a swimmer jumping off a diving board. You've just got to do it."
April 13, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer