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Billy Name (2007)

Billy Name (born February 22, 1940 in Poughkeepsie ; † July 18, 2016 ; actually William "Billy" Linich ) was an American photographer , actor and film director and a "universal member" of Andy Warhol's Factory .

Life

Billy Name is one of the many bizarre individuals in Warhol's cosmos. Originally he was a lighting technician from the off-Broadway scene. Linich or name - he gave himself his pseudonym when asked about his name stante pede with the answer "... my name is name" - had already met Warhol at the end of the 1950s when he was a waiter in the New York restaurant Serendipity 3 worked. He later worked in an esoteric bookstore and had become a disciple of frontier science .

Contact with Warhol developed and Name quickly made itself priceless as a factotum and caretaker in Warhol's Factory . He was responsible for the completely silver-colored interior of Warhol's first studio ( the silver factory ). As a photographer , he provided (in addition to Stephen Shore ) countless pictures from this period and documented the outgoing 1960s scene culture: Warhol's art actions, happenings , meetings, film recordings, several “Warhol superstars” and much more. Meanwhile, he also shot the first appearances of The Velvet Underground & Nico, sponsored by Warhol .

Fired on by amphetamines , the indefatigable name spent his entire life in the factory and increased himself excessively into the role of the spiritus rector (idea finder) and archivist of Warhol's art factory. For example, the ingenious lighting effects and slide projections for Warhol's multimedia spectacle Exploding Plastic Inevitable are partly due to Names. Among other things, he was also responsible for editing Warhol's films. Physically and mentally drained by Warhol, he ultimately withdrew completely into the darkroom of the Factory , spent days and nights in it, and began to scribble the walls with occult formulas, until one day in 1970 he suddenly disappeared from the Factory .

After various stations, his path finally led him back to New York in 1977, where he worked as an artist until his death.

literature

  • Billy Name: The Silver Age . Black and White Photographs from Andy Warhol's Factory. Reel Art Press, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-909526-17-4
  • Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3
  • Billy Name, Dave Hickey, Collier Schorr: All Tomorrow's Parties: Billy Name's Photographs of Andy Warhol's Factory . Distributed Art Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-881616-84-3

Web links

Commons : Billy Name  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Billy Name, Photographer Who Archived Warhol's Factory, Dies At 76
personal data
SURNAME Name, billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linich, William (real name); Linich, Billy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Poughkeepsie , New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2016