
from Russia in 1923, with the first photo booth appearing 1925 on Broadway in New York City. The modern concept of photo booth with (later) a curtain originated with Anatol Josepho (previously Josephewitz), who had arrived in the U.S. The first photographic automate with negative and positive process was invented by Carl Sasse (1896) of Germany.


All of these early machines produced ferrotypes. The first commercially successful automatic photographic apparatus was the "Bosco" from inventor Conrad Bernitt of Hamburg (patented July 16, 1890). These early machines were not reliable enough to be self-sufficient. The German-born photographer Mathew Steffens from Chicago filed a patent for such a machine in May 1889. It was shown at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. The first known really working photographic machine was a product of the French inventor T. The patent for the first automated photography machine was filed in 1888 by William Pope and Edward Poole of Baltimore.
