“Billy’s photos were the only thing that ever came close to capturing the feel of the 1960s Silver Factory.” - Andy Warhol
This is the definitive and comprehensive collection of Billy Name’s black and white photographs from Warhol’s Factory. Billy’s photographs from this period (1964-68) are one of the most important photographic documents of any single artist in history.
Billy lived in a tiny closet at the Factory. He was responsible for the legendary ‘silverizing’ of the space using aluminium paint and aluminium foil to complete the instillation. Name became a photographer when Warhol gifted him 35-mm Honeywell Pentax; without any formal training, save for a brief camera manual, he built a darkroom for himself in the bathroom, where he soon found himself developing hundreds of frames of The Factory, of Warhol’s work, and of their friends: Lou Reed and the rest of The Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan, and countless others.
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Andy Warhol on payphone at World’s Fair, 1964 |
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Andy Warhol under My Hustler marquee at the Hudson Cinema, 1967 |
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Andy Warhol carrying a Brillo Box sculpture with Billy Name’s cat Ruby at the Factory. |
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Andy Warhol with giant Baby Ruth bars, 1966 |
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Andy Warhol with The Velvet Underground, Nico’s son Ari Delon, Mary Wronov, and Gerald Malanga, 1966 |
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