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Billy Name, (born William Linich, Jr., February 22, 1940 in Poughkeepsie, New York), is an American photographer, filmmaker and lighting designer. He was the archivist of the Warhol Factory, from 1964 to 1970.〔(Celebrity Portraits from the Warhol Factory Years ), exhibition and catalog from the Irvine Contemporary gallery, Washington, DC.〕 His brief romance and subsequent friendship with Andy Warhol led to substantial collaboration on Warhol's work, including his films, paintings and sculpture. Linich became ''Billy Name'' among the coterie known as the Warhol Superstars. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio, the Factory,〔Steven Watson, ''Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties'' (2003) Pantheon, New York, p. 123〕 where he lived until 1970. His photographs of the scene at the Warhol Factory and of Warhol himself are important documents of the Pop art era. In 2001, the United States Postal Service used one of Billy Name's portraits of Warhol when it issued a commemorative stamp of the artist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Billy Name's portrait of Warhol as US postage stamp )〕 Name also has collaborated with Shepard Fairey with his photograph of Nico, singer with the Velvet Underground and part of the social circle of Warhol's Factory. He photographed the covers to White Light/White Heat and the third album as well as the photographs in the gatefold sleeve to The Velvet Underground and Nico in tandem with fellow Warhol assocaite Nat Finkelstein. ==Career in theater== Prior to his association with Warhol, Name had worked in theatrical lighting design. Name began his career as a lighting designer in the theater in 1960, while working as a waiter at Serendipity 3.〔Steve Watson, ''Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties'' (Pantheon Books, 2003).〕 His first apprenticeship was with Nick Cernovich, who had won an Obie Award for best lighting. "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." Under the tutelage of Cernovich, he co-designed the lighting for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in 1960. Name later designed lighting at Judson Memorial Church, New York Poets Theater and the Living Theater, illuminating the likes of dancers Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham and Fred Herko. Name significantly influenced Warhol's work. As Warhol would later explain: "() had a manner that inspired confidence. He gave the impression of being generally creative, he dabbled in lights and papers and artists materials...I picked up a lot from Billy." (Warhol & Hackett,''The Warhol Diaries'') Name also played music in the group Theatre of Eternal Music under the direction of La Monte Young.〔Scherman, Tony & Dalton, David, ''POP: The Genius of Andy Warhol'', HarperCollins, New York, N.Y. 2009, p. 188〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Name」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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