Sixty years before smartphones and Instagram, artists were using Polaroid cameras to take selfies or capture on-the-spot impressions from life that they could later incorporate into their art.

Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, considers the artist’s career-spanning use of Polaroid photography as part of his more expansive practice.

Works from BASTIAN Gallery's Andy Warhol Polaroid Pictures exhibition

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“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person,” king of Pop Art Andy Warhol once said. Conveniently, Warhol was always surrounded by famous people, and by carrying a Polaroid camera around from the late 50s until his death in 1987, was able to amass hundreds such good pictures. Andy Warhol:...