Andy Warhol

MEET ANDY WARHOL (MEET YOU MUSEUM · IN SPACE) (BEIJING)

Name, Billy

1968

Photograph

36 x 28 cm / Size with frame: 46 x 38 cm

Billy Name, a lighting designer who became the artist’s live-in lover and photogra-
pher of the Factory’s most darkly glamorous years.
As the Factory photographer, Billy was also the set decorator and casting director. He created
photos as magic tableaux vivants that established the superstars as much as the films did.
The Factory was Andy’s studio, but it was also the center of the scene. Everyone thought it was
people hanging around Andy; he thought he was hanging around them. But Billy managed it all,
kept it all under control.
Billy ran the Factory, doing what needed to be done, until