Lucas Samaras, who is also known for sculptures and sewn-fabric paintings, began making Polaroid® photographs in 1969. In the 1980s he began a series he called Panoramas, many of them self-portraits or dramatically lighted interiors of his apartment and studio that are spliced together from strips cut from large-format Polaroid photographs, recombined to create a contiguous but psychologically skewed space.
A Democracy of Images: Photographs of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013