Before selfies and Instagram, there was Andy Warhol and his Polaroid camera.

Starting in the late 1950s and continuing all the way until his death in 1987, the legendary pop artist took his Polaroid with him wherever he went so that he could chronicle his life through photos.

“A picture means I know where I was every minute,” Warhol once said. “That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”

Warhol ended up taking thousands of Polaroids over the course of his life, the best of which have been collected in “Andy Warhol, Polaroids 1958-1987,” a book published by TASCHEN that will be released in September.

In the book are a number of playful and intensely intimate celebrity portraits including Jack Nicholson, Audrey Hepburn and Yves Saint Laurent.

“These Polaroids, you know, [are] artifacts from that era and that jet-set kind of world that Andy found himself [in] in the ’70s,” longtime Warhol collaborator Bob Colacello explained to Vanity Fair.

“It was the best place.”