Billy Name
Filmmaker, Visual Artist
1940 –
Who is Billy Name?
Billy Name, is an American photographer, filmmaker and lighting designer. He was the archivist of the Warhol Factory, from 1964 to 1970. His brief romance and subsequent friendship with Andy Warhol led to substantial collaboration on Warhol's work, including his films, paintings and sculpture. Linich became Billy Name among the coterie known as the Warhol Superstars. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio, the Factory, where he lived until 1970. His photographs of the scene at the Warhol Factory and of Warhol himself are important documents of the Pop art era.
In 2001, the United States Postal Service used one of Billy Name's portraits of Warhol when it issued a commemorative stamp of the artist. Name also has collaborated with Shepard Fairey with his photograph of Nico, singer with the Velvet Underground and part of the social circle of Warhol's Factory.
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- Born
- Feb 22, 1940
Poughkeepsie - Also known as
- William Linich
- Billy Name-Linich
- Billy Linich
- Billy Goat Clinic
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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