Last Updated on September 21, 2025 by Matt Staff
In the early ’90s, celebrities ducked into photobooth strips at malls, backstage parties, record-label events, and after-hours hangouts, leaving behind ink-dark frames of smirks, peace signs, and inside jokes.
This gallery pulls together 20 early-’90s photobooth pictures that feel like time capsules. It’s candid, grainy, and gloriously unvarnished, which proves that fame still fits in a two-inch strip.
1. Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana

2. Christina Ricci

3. Mariah Carey

4. Janet Jackson

5. Kirsten Dunst

6. Macaulay Culkin

7. Snoop Dogg

8. Johnny Depp

9. Natalie Portman

10. Keanu Reeves

11. Robin Williams

12. Tyra Banks

13. Matthew Perry

14. Gillian Anderson

15. Radiohead

16. Ethan Hawke

17. Freddie Prinze Jr.

18. Courtney Cox

19. The Hansons

20. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen

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