Billy and the F Catalogue
Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 01:26PM 
Billy Name, Warhol’s Factory foreman, photographer and benevolent bearded Buddhist, left us in the late summer of 2016. Billy had already long been on that astral plane that few of us reach in one lifetime, and we felt quite privileged to spend time in his splendid company.
Randy Kennedy of the New York Times encapsulated his importance to Warhol in the accompanying blurb: “Billy Name, born William Linich Jr. in 1940, not only captured Andy Warhol’s retinue of ‘Superstars’ but also documented the larger scene in his thousands of moody, high-contrast black and white photographs.”
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Thanks to Billy and those thousands of photographs, we were able to showcase nearly his entire body of work, along with a three-hour in-depth interview with him for our television documentary series, ‘Andy Warhol’s Factory People’.
Footage for this 68 minute film is based on a fascinating "research" interview he gave us, which was not sutable for television broadcast, and never before seen.
The content of the interview has to do with an exhibition of Billy’s photos that took place in 1996, at the Parco Exposure Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Some of his work was already hanging on the walls of the Tokyo Museum of Art, but these were pictures that Billy had chosen, that resonated with him. Here they are, in the ‘F Catalogue. Factory Fotos (sic) by Billy Name’.
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