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February 11, 2010 - USA - Kymara Artistic Management announced today that Warhol Supertar Billy Name, whose seminal photography captured the essence of Andy Warhol's Silver Factory including the style and trends of the Avant Garde scene, has selected Workhouse Publicity as the Agency of Record for U.S. marketing and domestic publicity.
Known as the true 'resident photographer', beginning in 1963 and for several years thereafter, Name silverized Warhol's Factory capturing the perpetual swirl of superstars, celebrities and hangers-on and was a driving force behind the art and film that emerged from an industrial space located on East 47th Street in Manhattan, and later near Union Square, which has now become legend. In later years, Name made his income from curators, magazine editors and filmmakers who would pay for the use of his iconic 1960's images which provide a rare documentation into nearly every aspect of Warhol's world. But sometime over the past two years, Mr. Name's life's work, his archive of negatives went missing, left in the care of his photography agent Kevin Kushel, a former director of the Associated Press's photo archive who went on to form his own stock agency.
Unable to contact Mr. Kushel for months, the disappearance of Name's negatives has raised alarm not just amongst his friends and associates but also scholars who describe the images as important historical record of a pivotal time in art history. efforts to recover the work have proved fruitless and so Name has met with the Special Prosecution Bureau of Manhattan's District Attorney's office bewildered by the thought that someone might have his work attempting to sell them for profit. Read the full NY TImes story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/arts/design/09billy.html
Since the recent coverage, Name along with the help of his team of Ante Artist Superstars, struggles to create a new foundation for his artistic accomplishments Interested media who wish to interview Billy Name please contact Workhouse Publicity, CEO, Adam Nelson by telephone 212. 645. 8006 or via email nelson ( @ ) workhousepr dot com
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