Andy Warhol: original FOMO artist, Polaroid photographer extraordinaire

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Andy Warhol sure did look like he was fun at parties – or at least he surrounded himself with people that were. A stunning new Taschen book shows off Warhol’s life just as he’d have liked us to see it: a vast expanse of intimate moments with the rich, famous, beautiful and fun. Andy Warhol, Polaroids by Richard B Woodward displays every single one of Warhol’s Polaroid photographs between 1958 and 1987, and as many have suggested, it’s like browsing social media today: impossibly fabulous and carefully curated to within a millimetre of the images’ little white borders. It’s fascinating to see how the snaps reflect Warhol’s perception of himself through his career – in the later images, he’s carefully name stamped each one, as though preparing for their inevitable collectibility. Mixing portraits of superstars like Mike Jagger, Jack Nicholson and Debbie Harry with landscapes and Cabbage Patch Doll still lifes, it’s a gorgeous visual journal of three decades of Warhol’s life, and one that induces more FOMO than any modern-day snappers could dream of.