GL Review
MORE INFO“The book has a powerful feeling of a documentary, of being in the moment with Warhol and his band of artists as they created their own countercultural universe.”
HotShoe
MORE INFO“Gregory Barker speaks to Billy Name of Factory fame about why it still captivates us. ”
The Guardian
MORE INFO“Maybe. Maybe. I know I resolved that I was going to leave because I was saturated by the Factory, I was saturated by silver. I was just saturated.”
AnOther Magazine
MORE INFO“One day Ondine gave Billy some amphetamines. Billy recalled, 'All of a sudden I had energy to get up off the floor and start doing things.'”
The Independent
MORE INFO“The claim that Name's new book, The Silver Age, is the most revealing collection of photographs of the 20th century's most divisive artist is entirely convincing.”
The Herald
MORE INFO“Name's high-contrast images, which have been gathered for a new book, are now a form of 1960s iconography. A reminder of the druggy, space-age future that was in the air in a certain corner of New York at the time. A future that is long behind us.”
BBC Radio Scotland
MORE INFO“This book really is stunning. It's beautiful. You can go back to it again and again and really immerse yourself in, and really be dazzled by this guy's talent”
The Huffington Post
MORE INFO“Not only do Name's gritty, over-exposed shots give an insider's perspective on Warhol, but they document an iconic era in American art history.”
BBC Arts
MORE INFO“Billy was responsible for the silver at the Factory. He covered the crumbling walls and the pipes in different grades of silver foil... He bought cans of silver paint and sprayed everything with it, right down to the toilet bowl. Why he loved silver so much I don't know. But it was great, it was the perfect time to think silver. Silver was the future, it was spacey. - Andy Warhol”
V Magazine
MORE INFO“It is the unique combination of Billy's particular approach towards photography ... that sets his photographs apart from others taken at the time. He managed to capture in his photographs the essence of what the Silver Factory felt like.”
The Guardian/The Observer
MORE INFO“I think of Billy as being Andy's equal - the great unsung artist and behind-the-scenes magician of the scene. ... Billy was the negative Andy was peeled from.”
The New York Times
MORE INFO“The Warhol Collaborator Billy Name on Andy, Photography and the Afterlife”