Billy Name: The Silver Age: Black and White Photographs from Andy Warhol's Factory
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Billy Name: The Silver Age: Black and White Photographs from Andy Warhol's Factory Details
Review There are few others that got a better, or closer look in to the mysterious goings-on of Warhol’s Factory. Lucky for us, Andy gave Billy a Pentax Honeywell 35mm camera, with which he documented all that he saw during his time living in a tiny closet in the studio. (Country & Town House)Name photographed everything and everyone, for the most part candidly, though there are a few posed compositions. This gives the book a powerful feeling of a documentary, of being in the moment with Warhol and his band of artists as they created their own counter-cultural universe. (Matthew Hays The Gay and Lesbian Review)His photographs ― he took thousands, in a moody, high-contrast black and white ― did more than just capture Warhol’s retinue, his “superstars”: Edie Sedgwick, Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga, Mario Montez, Mary Woronov, Ondine, and Bibbe Hansen. They also documented the larger scene around the Factory, including fellow artists like Ray Johnson, Jasper Johns and John Cage; the members of the Velvet Underground; the filmmaker Barbara Rubin; and admirers like Bob Dylan and Salvador Dalí. (Randy Kennedy The New York Times) Read more About the Author Dagon James is a New York based archivist, editor and curator. He is the founder and publisher of Lid magazine and fine art imprint The Waverly Press; the publisher of limited edition books and prints; and he works with museums and galleries worldwide. Read more
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This book is lovely (just got it today), and the photographs are reproduced extremely well. Billy Name has a unique high contrast style, so you either like it or you don't, but I think it is awesome.I'm not going to take off a star for this because I'm reviewing the book, not Amazon, but unfortunately--as I often have to do--I'll be sending this book back to Amazon for a replacement, as it arrived damaged. I'm sure they won't change their policy, as they've no doubt run the numbers and think it is more economical for people to send back damaged books than to package them all so they won't get damaged in the first place, but it would be nice if Amazon cared a little bit more about how they ship their expensive art books.
