https://www.billynameestate.com/home daily 1.0 2022-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1614796797435-HT4UJ788UYIVM8C44Y51/Billy+Name+Self+Portrait+Color.jpg Home - "The only things that ever came close to conveying the look and feel of the factory then, aside from the movies we shot there, were the still photographs Billy took." – Andy Warhol 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. This site serves as a continually growing online resource for those interested in the life, work, and legacy of this remarkable artist. If you have any personal recollections, photos, art, interviews or anything else related to Billy Name’s life and work that you wish to share, please contact us and we may add your contributions to our ever-growing archive. https://www.billynameestate.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615579743103-HUQH1PDHGPV738TZ9P2M/Billy+Name+High+School+Photos.jpg About Photographs from Name’s Senior yearbook, 1958, Arlington High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615586905780-Q8SKY6F2RYIJD2GEPUBS/Billy+Name1964++s2.jpg About Name in New York City, ca, 1963. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1616816883603-E4PAE7LBNTUDPCOXH2YC/serendipity+3+copy.jpg About The founders of Serendipity 3, Calvin Holt, Stephen Bruce and Patch Carradine. Ca. 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1616816898759-K402TCZRYPBJBD23AVDI/serendipity+3.jpg About Andy Warhol and Stephen Bruce (in doorway) of Serendipity 3. Ca. 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/fd05663e-0b8c-4764-b75a-d34c48191430/Nick+Cernovich.jpg About - Make it stand out Nick Cernovich, photographer and date unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/7229c670-5dbc-4a71-a3da-527601301ef9/Nude+Restaurant+alt.jpg About - Make it stand out Allen Midgette on the set of Warhol’s Nude Restaurant, 1967. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615588973789-KOUXJY0J6URIONRUQQI8/floating-bear.26-1.jpg About The front cover and two interior pages from The Floating Bear no. 26 published in 1962 which was guest edited by Billy Name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615593328609-LUNGOCBCZNSQSVRILFBU/Billy+Name+Diane+di+Prima+Topenga+Canyon.jpg About Name (top left) in Topanga Canyon with Diane di Prima (holding Dominique “Mini” di Prima), Easter, April 14, 1963. Photo by Jim Elliot, courtesy Diane di Prima and Shepard Powell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615748479738-UF6WXZXC28H1CB83NQI1/IMG_1412.jpg About Jill Johnston and Freddie Herko perform Pocket Follies at The New York Poet’s Theatre, June 10, 1963. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/ec43f456-6dfc-4e7e-83bd-331e27faec85/haircut.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy Name cutting John Daley’s hair in Andy Warhol’s movie Haircut #1, filmed in Name’s apartment, 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615663157149-ZU5UPPA2437PKA0QHUTX/Billy+Name+Andy+Warhol+Silver+Factory+Exterior+1.jpg About Andy Warhol’s 231 East 47th Street Factory. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/c8fd0040-3c7b-4f9e-a7e7-421b57665a98/Billy+Silver+Chair.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy Linich at the Factory, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615663777634-JAZ85WXAOIYZ8PZ71MTF/Billy+Name+Andy+Warhol+Jackie+Kennedy+Painting+19.jpg About Andy Warhol at the Factory, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/4430a0a7-5128-4c35-982f-bbf8c72cecb0/Factory+Gerard+copy+4.jpg About - Make it stand out Gerard Malanga, the Factory, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615739553965-P2ZTTNZFVALGQAAYV4SZ/Billy+Name+ANdy+Warhol+Brillo+Box+2+copy.jpg About Andy Warhol carrying a Brillo Box sculpture and Billy’s cat Ruby, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615662869625-PFDD6R4PJ8J851D5MTJO/Billy+Name+Andy+Warhol+Brillo+Box+10.jpg About Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup box sculptures arranged in The Silver Factory, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615739807547-T36Y75LU4FP2XQO7FXIP/Billy+Name+Andy+Warhol+Brillo+Box+19.jpg About Andy Warhol’s box sculptures as arranged by Name, Stable Gallery, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615663692250-F0V3EXHUOM7SG8PLHCDT/Billy+Name+Andy+Warhol+Brillo+Box+14.jpg About Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box sculptures, Stable Gallery, 1964. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/f33c918d-838c-4024-88dc-96a4290db3bd/pentax.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy used a Honeywell H3 Pentax camera much like this one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/cf5e5807-095e-40bb-a748-a3f10ab6a7ec/Screenshot+2025-01-13+at+10.36.15%E2%80%AFAM.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy Name’s original “CREDIT: LINICH / FACTORY FOTO” stamp (top) from the 231 East 47th Street Factory. He altered this rubber stamp when he changed his name, removing “CREDIT: LINICH” and adding a second “BILLY NAME THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE- -ETC.” stamp (bottom) to the back of his prints. A new stamp (right) was later made which combined both stamps when the Factory moved to 33 Union Square West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615748998449-BXE8J3H2M7RQIE7IOAR1/Billy+Name+Gerard+Malanga+Movie+camera.jpg About Gerard Malanga, 1965. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/4f69c806-ec6f-4c9c-86cc-1794ca970ec9/Chelsea+Girls+Billy+name+movie+poster.jpg About - Make it stand out Movie poster for Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls with Billy Name’s photograph of Warhol, Mary Woronov, International Velvet and Nico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615654837369-B0XSRE385SPAJDD7XQ93/_X0U8383+copy.JPG About Name in front of his Warhol Screen Test and Haircut #2. These films were projected as continuous loops during his 2014 exhibition at MILK Gallery. Photo courtesy and © Michael Zagaris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/9eaada3d-5061-4261-bd79-8bec806e2b10/unnamed-1.png About - Make it stand out Al Hansen, Cafe Au Go Go, ca. 1965. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615664255415-1N05URSBS7K9EZLXP3V7/Edie+Sedgwick+Bibbe+Hansen.jpg About Bibbe Hansen and Edie Sedgwick on the set of Warhol’s film Prison, 1965. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615754780905-7QK8UHQWYKI24U5DSRG9/Velvets+Live+2a.jpg About The Velvet Underground during one of their Exploding Plastic Inevitable performances, 1967. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/3d285cc5-8b97-4c8e-b70f-9b0c17fd5da2/Warhol+index+book.jpg About Andy Warhol’s Index, designed by Billy Name, 1967. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1616816310680-PQHPY59A8A91UO7LD249/Billy+Name+Screen+Test.jpg About Billy Name Screen Test, 1966, from Screen Tests / A Diary, by Gerard Malanga & Andy Warhol, Copyright © 1967 by Gerard Malanga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615664999743-KKVS02JB3M5556HB3LZH/Billy+Color+4.jpg About Larry Rivers, Susan Bottomly, Andy Warhol, and Billy Name (reflection) at the 33 Union Square West Factory, 1968. Photo © Billy Name Estate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/580782f4-deee-4204-a0c9-9a966b57ba6f/Velvet+Underground+Bike+Boy+Billy+Name.jpg About - Make it stand out The source photo for the Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat album cover, 1968. Photo © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/6bbc5772-049f-499a-9640-fc61f99a5646/8.jpg About - Make it stand out Some of Name’s 1968 color photos. Ultra Violet, the 57th Street subway station, the building at the corner of 12th Street and Broadway and the Olympus Pen camera like the one Billy Name used that year. Photos © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/0ce5d9a9-c3f0-459d-bf4d-ae0ad5605eb4/warhol+stockholm.jpg About - Make it stand out Moderna Museet Stockholm catalog, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/f4928f0c-27f4-493f-ac03-f804fd52f951/half.jpg About - Make it stand out Betsey Johnson and John Cale’s wedding photos, 1968. Photos © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/de3a13e8-9184-4367-aead-f3b2953126de/valerie+solanas.jpg About - Make it stand out Valerie Solanas, Tom Baker and Gerard Malanga (left foreground) on the set of Warhol’s I, A Man, 1967. Photos © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/b5d1dcff-a5a2-4560-9bdc-f1030f4bedb4/Warhol+a+novel.jpg About - Make it stand out a: A Novel, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/583a7055-dca4-4f76-9c13-1ac5d9dedbb2/velvet+underground+billy+name.jpg About - Make it stand out The Velvet Underground, the Factory, 1969. The image on the right was used on the cover of their self titled album that same year. Photos © Billy Name Estate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615592111153-WWUOTEB4APS3NMKH7M6F/sticky-fingers+sleeve.jpeg About The Rolling Stones album cover for Sticky Fingers designed by Andy Warhol with photography credited to Billy Name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615594737530-MJDBBQAUZ2JJW7D8Q2Z3/DgR_01+TC94.146+copy+2.jpg About Name’s goodbye note to Warhol when he left The Factory in 1970 or 71. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1616816038444-28JZTZ3HCVBR718CK70T/Billy+Name+by+Gerard+Malanga+1971.jpg About Billy Name, 1971. Photo: Courtesy and © Gerard Malanga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/500335c1-3835-4ed1-9acb-fd730192c8a4/s-l960.jpg About - Make it stand out Esoteric Astrology by Alice Bailey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/a891a2b7-6ee7-4fd2-8463-a6250d7a7535/popism-the-warhol-60s-andy-warhol-first-edition-signed-association-copy.jpg.jpg About - Make it stand out Popism, 1980. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/cf6c9d5e-bf46-46e0-a9c2-9ef0ed57d026/film-poster.jpg.jpg About - Make it stand out Songs for Drella album cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615743097202-H77CGXPPH6M5ELXEMN3Y/Blake+Boyd+Billy+Name.jpg About Several sequences from Name’s 1996 Photo Booth collaboration with artist Blake Boyd. Photos © Blake Boyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615592531413-TW8H36Q8WGW0MNH6KLUN/Billy+Name+Books.jpg About Name’s books Stills from the Warhol Films, 1992, Factory Foto, 1996 and All Tomorrow’s Parties, 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615653550910-0VS0LAYGKP87ABW7GM41/49+copy.jpg About Lid magazine issues 4, 14 and 17 with covers by Billy Name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/035ccf1d-5870-4dfb-b373-a49effa34ee6/8a.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy Name’s 1968 photograph of Cory Tippin and Jay Johnson on the cover of the 2005 exhibition catalog Bande à part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/961d11fa-2f97-449a-8d34-aa1244c24bc8/Billy+Name+by+Godlis.jpeg About - Make it stand out Billy Name at Clic gallery. Photo: Courtesy and © GODLIS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/e30ed5bd-092a-4f1f-b5ce-4c9511bdc67c/Billy+Name+Gerard+Malanga+John+Kisch.jpg About - Make it stand out Billy Name and Gerard Malanga at Name’s opening in Rhinebeck, 2011. Photo: Courtesy and © John Duke Kisch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615592986519-5G0WZCEIE6DEMGIVEGBX/Becoming+Billy+Name.jpg About Name in a still from the film Becoming Billy Name directed by Alexa Karolinski, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/808b89c4-5101-43d4-82b0-46ba59657e03/Opening3.jpg About - Make it stand out The opening reception for the Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Wanted Men exhibition at the Queens Museum, April, 2014. From left: Barbara Moore, Sean Carrillo, Billy Name, Bibbe Hansen, Anastasia Rygle and Dagon James. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/5c040ed2-79f1-4350-b126-390215fdcc40/Pittsburgh+May+2014-1+copy.JPG About - Make it stand out The end of the night group photo from the Andy Warhol Museum 20th anniversary gala, May, 2014. Billy Name is in the back wearing sunglasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615655532171-UPVPLU6CXNKO0LCRX1GP/Billy+Name+Silver+Age.jpg About Billy Name: The Silver Age, published in 2014 by Reel Art Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603fd72e848c9702775b598f/1615656195631-2UK4D99XYC5AQ7YRDFR9/_X0U8399+copy.JPG About (Left) Name with his 1965 portrait of Edie Sedgwick. (Right) Name making final preparations for his exhibition at MILK with Tony Nourmand, Dagon James, and Anastasia (Rygle) James, 2014. 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