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The Photomaton was invented in 1925 in New York by Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho, as a ploy to make photography more accessible to the public: located near Times Square, it attracted 280,000 visitors within six months and produced eight photographs for 25 cents. By the end of the second world war, there were more than 30,000 commercial booths across the US, coinciding with the rise…