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Billy Name
William George Linich (February 22, 1940 – July 18, 2016), known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer.
Billy Name was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970. His collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol included films, paintings, and sculptures. Linich became Billy Name among the clique known as the Warhol superstars. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio, the Factory, where he also resided. His photographs of the scene at the Factory and Warhol are important documents of the pop art era.
In 2001, the United States Postal Service used one of Name's portraits of Warhol when it issued a commemorative stamp of the artist. Name was awarded the Dutchess County Executive's Individual Artist Award in 2012.
William George Linich was born on February 22, 1940, in Poughkeepsie, New York. His mother was a telephone operator and his father was a welder before becoming a barber.
Linich graduated from Arlington High School in LaGrange, New York, as an honors student. Without a clear strategy, he set out for New York. His aptitude test indicated that he may succeed in business, but despite his inability to draw, he was pulled to the arts. Andy Gusmano, his great-uncle who owned a barbershop in Poughkeepsie, gave him a three-piece barbering kit, which he brought to New York.
His first apprenticeship was with Nick Cernovich, part of the Black Mountain College contingency in New York in the 1950s, who had won an Obie Award for best lighting.[citation needed] "It was the end of the period of the romantic avant-garde bohemia, when artists kept younger artists and a male artist would always have a young man around."[citation needed]
In 1960. Linich began his career as a lighting designer at New York Poets Theatre, American Poets Theater, and the Judson Dance Company in New York City. Under the tutelage of Cernovich, he co-designed the lighting for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in 1960.[citation needed]
He also played music in the group Theatre of Eternal Music under the direction of La Monte Young.
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Billy Name
William George Linich (February 22, 1940 – July 18, 2016), known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer.
Billy Name was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970. His collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol included films, paintings, and sculptures. Linich became Billy Name among the clique known as the Warhol superstars. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio, the Factory, where he also resided. His photographs of the scene at the Factory and Warhol are important documents of the pop art era.
In 2001, the United States Postal Service used one of Name's portraits of Warhol when it issued a commemorative stamp of the artist. Name was awarded the Dutchess County Executive's Individual Artist Award in 2012.
William George Linich was born on February 22, 1940, in Poughkeepsie, New York. His mother was a telephone operator and his father was a welder before becoming a barber.
Linich graduated from Arlington High School in LaGrange, New York, as an honors student. Without a clear strategy, he set out for New York. His aptitude test indicated that he may succeed in business, but despite his inability to draw, he was pulled to the arts. Andy Gusmano, his great-uncle who owned a barbershop in Poughkeepsie, gave him a three-piece barbering kit, which he brought to New York.
His first apprenticeship was with Nick Cernovich, part of the Black Mountain College contingency in New York in the 1950s, who had won an Obie Award for best lighting.[citation needed] "It was the end of the period of the romantic avant-garde bohemia, when artists kept younger artists and a male artist would always have a young man around."[citation needed]
In 1960. Linich began his career as a lighting designer at New York Poets Theatre, American Poets Theater, and the Judson Dance Company in New York City. Under the tutelage of Cernovich, he co-designed the lighting for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in 1960.[citation needed]
He also played music in the group Theatre of Eternal Music under the direction of La Monte Young.