This image of a photo booth at Baker street station in 1955 was taken by WHR Godwin. The booth was fully automated and provided instant passport photos (4 for 2 shillings).

It All Begins Here. This is one of the earliest coin operated, automated photo booths. It’s called the Photomaton and it would take 10 minutes to print 8 photographs if you had a spare 25 cents. The Photomaton was licensed in 1928 to Mr Josepho of New York.

The Purikura influence. Purikura (short for purinto kurabu or "Print Club") are Japanese photo booths that take photos and instantly customise them with excessive, "kawaii" (cute) edits, such as enlarging eyes, smoothing skin, adding digital stamps, and printing them as stickers. These photo booths are widely thought to be responsible for the craze in party photo booths that began in the 1990s.

The Modern Photo Booth Experience