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William George Linich (February 22, 1940 – July 18, 2016), known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer. He was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970.
Jul 22, 2016 · Billy Name, who became Warhol’s lover, muse and court photographer, leaving behind a monumental visual record of the 1960s art world in and around the Silver Factory, died in Poughkeepsie on...
Jul 18, 2016 · Billy Name, the photographer who immortalized the silver madness of Warhol’s factory in the 1960s, died on July 18, 2016. He was 76 years old. Milk Studios, a New York City gallery that has shown Name’s work, confirmed news of his passing, as did Dagon James.
Jul 18, 2016 · Billy Name, the primary architect, foreman, and archivist at Andy Warhol ‘s Factory, and a photographer who used his camera to immortalize its denizens, has died at 76.
Jul 19, 2016 · Name had run out of his darkroom when he heard Valerie Solanas’s gunshots, and discovered Warhol lying in a pool of blood and held him in his arms—Andy, still in shock, told Billy not to make...
Jul 19, 2016 · It was a fortuitous day in 1959 that Billy Name (né William Linich Jr.) met Andy Warhol—for both parties involved. Warhol went on to famously rename the Poughkeepsie, New York native, took him as a lover for a brief time, and posted him as in-house photographer at the Factory during its prime.
Billy Name, who died aged 76 on July 18, was “William Linich” when he met Andy Warhol in the late ’50s.
BILLY NAME (b. William George Linich, 1940–2016) was a photographer, lighting designer, and poet best known for “silvering” Andy Warhol’s Factory and for his photographs taken there between 1964–1970. Photographs from Name’s Senior yearbook, 1958, Arlington High School. Born February 22, 1940, Linich was raised in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Billy Name (1940–2016) was a photographer, lighting designer, and poet best known for his photographs of Andy Warhol and his milieu from 1964–1971. Name’s influence on Warhol as a confidant and collaborator altered the trajectory modern and contemporary aesthetics and his legacy as an image-maker and intermediary cannot be overstated.
Jul 20, 2016 · Billy Name, who has died aged 76, was a sometime lover and confidant of the pop artist Andy Warhol and, as a key member of his New York “Factory”, was responsible for many of the most famous...
