Alan Adler (photo booth owner)
Alan Adler | |
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Adler at the Flinders Street Station photo booth (2024) | |
| Born | 30 May 1932 |
| Died | 18 December 2024 (aged 92) |
| Years active | 1972–2022 |
| Known for | Photo booths in Melbourne, self-portraits |
Alan Adler (30 May 1932 – 18 December 2024) was an Australian man who owned 16 photo booths across Melbourne, Australia. Over his career, he took photographs of himself each time he fixed and serviced the booths for over 50 years, keeping thousands of the test strips in his home, though he did not consider himself a photographer.
By the year of his retirement in 2022, only one of his booths remained, at Flinders Street railway station; the operation of this booth and the potential restoration of the rest was taken over by Christopher Sutherland and Jessie Norman under the name Metro-Auto-Photo. Adler's work has been celebrated by a book and exhibition, both by the same name of Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits.