Anatol Josepho

He developed a close bond with his father and became interested in the Wild West cultural phenomenon of expansion in the United States in the late 1800s.

He began taking photographs with a Brownie camera produced by the Eastman Kodak Company during his childhood and he attended a local technical institute to pursue his growing interest in photography in 1909 at the age of 15.

[7] Josepho's invention of the photo booth, known as the "Photomaton", debuted in September 1926 at 1659 Broadway Street in Manhattan, located in the heart of New York City.

In an interview with The New York Times, Morgenthau said that the machine will allow them "to do in the photographic field what Woolworths has done in novelties and merchandise, Ford in automobiles".

[11] The following year, the machine was introduced to the European market, where notable figures such as André Breton and Salvador Dalí had their portraits taken.