Photomatonn.
/fə(ʊ)ˈtɒmət(ə)n/, U.S. /foʊˈtɑmədən/, /foʊˈtɑməˌtɑn/ Originally U.S.
A self-service machine that takes portrait photographs automatically, typically in a photo booth; a booth containing such a machine. Also (now rare): a photograph taken by such a machine.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > by method of photographing
melainotype1856
pistolgram1860
shot1867
snapshot1890
snap1894
telephotograph1894
Kodak1895
kite-photograph1897
close-up1913
vortograph1917
trick shot1924
Photomaton1927
rayograph1933
filter shot1937
flash1945
streak photograph1950
satellite picture1954
telephoto1960
digital photograph1962
xograph1974
digital photo1986
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > automatic
rotary camera1897
Photomaton1927
Photomat1939
1927 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 1/3 Henry Morgenthau..and a group of business associates announced yesterday that they had purchased the control of the Photomaton—the quarter-in-the-slot automatic photographing device which has been in use in this city since last September.
1928 W. T. Foster & W. Catchings Road to Plenty xiii. 164 Here is a picture I had taken in New York the other day by the Photomaton.
1936 G. Greene Gun for Sale iii. 104 I'll wire home for a better likeness. I've got a whole strip of Photomatons at home.
a1959 T. Helburn Wayward Quest (1960) xi. 179 No license without a test. No test without photographs. So we went back to have our pictures taken at a photomaton.
1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 48 The enlarged Photomaton—that's the latest.
1990 P. Caws in G. L. Ormiston & A. D. Schrift Transforming Hermeneutic Context vi. 143 Derrida encloses a picture of himself, taken in a ‘photomaton’ at Paddington.
2000 R. Prieto Body of Writing iv. 156 She..has been staring at her new and already wrecked image in the mirror of a photomaton.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
photomatonv.
/fə(ʊ)ˈtɒmət(ə)n/, U.S. /foʊˈtɑməd(ə)n/, /foʊˈtɑməˌtɑn/ rare.
transitive. To photograph in a photo booth.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner
to fire away1859
stereograph1860
flashlight1886
shoot1890
snap1890
Kodak1891
snapshot1898
mug1899
mutoscope1899
telephotograph1899
mutograph1908
photomaton1927
soft-focus1928
minicam1937
microfiche1975
pap1993
1927 Lima (Ohio) News 2 Aug. 1 Photomatons have been installed now in 11 cities, and in each city the queue of people waiting to be photomatoned proves that a few more machines could be used to advantage.
1933 V. Woolf Let. 19 Feb. (1979) V. 161 I've got to be photomatoned tomorrow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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