Andy Warhol was obsessed with Polaroid technology. From the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he carried a Polaroid camera with him practically everywhere he went, with which he a gigantic collection of instant photos of friends, lovers, patrons, celebrities, scene stars and party acquaintances accumulated. And of course from itself, the fixed star around which all these satellites orbited.

This book, which was published in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, contains more than 150 of these instant photographs. Warhol's "visual diary" shows him as a chronicler and unofficial court photographer of New York's in-crowd and party people. Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé and Debbie Harry are on display, as are photos of his entourage and several still lifes. Warhol's Polaroid images, often spontaneous and unvarnished, document his era, just as Instagram immortalizes ours, and bring the world of the Factory and the legendary "Studio 54" to life.