William George Linich (February 22, 1940 – July 18, 2016), known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer. He was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970.

Jul 22, 2016 · Billy Name, who became Warhol’s lover, muse and court photographer, leaving behind a monumental visual record of the 1960s art world in and around the Silver Factory, died in Poughkeepsie...

Jul 18, 2016 · Billy Name, the primary architect, foreman, and archivist at Andy Warhol‘s Factory, and a photographer who used his camera to immortalize its denizens, has died at 76.

BILLY NAME (b. William George Linich, 1940–2016) was a photographer, lighting designer, and poet best known for “silvering” Andy Warhol’s Factory and for his photographs taken there between 1964–1970.

Jul 18, 2016 · Billy Name, the photographer who immortalized the silver madness of Warhol’s factory in the 1960s, died on July 18, 2016. He was 76 years old. Milk Studios, a New York City gallery that has shown Name’s work, confirmed news of his passing, as did Dagon James.

Jul 19, 2016 · Born in 1940 in Poughkeepsie, he landed in the arms of avant-garde New York City, with La Monte Young and Ray Johnson and the Fluxus group, alongside a young artist named Yoko Ono.

Billy Name (1940–2016) was a photographer, lighting designer, and poet best known for his photographs of Andy Warhol and his milieu from 1964–1971. Name’s influence on Warhol as a confidant and collaborator altered the trajectory modern and contemporary aesthetics and his legacy as an image-maker and intermediary cannot be overstated.

Jul 21, 2016 · Billy may have learned this masterful technique from his earlier mentor, Nick Cernovich, lighting designer for the Judson Church and other avant-garde theaters in New York of the early 1960s. Billy brought this knowledge and skill to his work on Andy’s films, as well as acting in several of them.

Aug 24, 2016 · Paintings were made, but also films, music, superstars. Billy was filling out a form one day and saw his name alongside the made-up Pop art names of the superstars, and seeing a blank “Name:” he filled in Name.

Jul 30, 2016 · Billy Name, who died aged 76 on July 18, was “William Linich” when he met Andy Warhol in the late ’50s.