Factory-produced: Photographs 1964-1970

December 21, 2015 8:19 AM

BBC Arts::Photography - "Billy Name was the in-house photographer at Andy Warhol's Factory studio, where he lived from 1964-1970. A newly published book, Billy Name: The Silver Age, collects his work to tell the story of that heady time."

There are links to other BBC Arts:Photography articles at the bottom of the page, including but not limited to Liverpool in the 70s, warzones and areas of conflict, the 19th Century, the Black British Experience, and South Africa's LGBTQI community. Enjoy!

posted by marienbad (6 comments total)

Arts::Photography? What is this, a perl CPAN module?
posted by thewalrus at 8:32 AM on December 21, 2015

This is good. Thanks.
posted by OmieWise at 9:16 AM on December 21, 2015

Any photos from The Factory make me think that Andy Warhol and his group were simultaneously overrated and also that they were geniuses. Which is probably just the way Warhol would want it.
posted by xingcat at 10:22 AM on December 21, 2015

Billy is still alive and quipping, now 75 and living pretty quietly in Poughkeepsie, NY, apparently able to subsist off selling prints and licensing of his photos. Still shooting too, it seems, as photos of his occasionally appear in art ltd.. He has also made some genial, funny appearances in documentaries about folks in the Warhol orbit in the last decade or so like Ray Johnson and Danny Williams.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:54 AM on December 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Great article
posted by gildenventures at 12:11 PM on December 21, 2015

Nope, he was a art terrorist here. And a well armed one to boot.
posted by Samizdata at 10:10 PM on December 21, 2015