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Summary: best sixties new york color photography-a work of art!
Review: a surprisingly refreshing view of the warhol sixties. shots of lou reed and the velvet underground very initmate. name was really decades ahead of current popular art photographers with his brilliant surrealistic color and funky format!
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Summary: "Artistic" rather than informative
Review: Billy Name was there and has one-zillion photographs from which to choose, so I was truly disappointed by the "artistic" crud he chose to print. I wanted to see real photographs of real people, not how clever he was at "conveying the feeling" of the time. I resent this book because it could've been so much better. I didn't buy it to see Name's artistic view of a momentary, yet monumental, era. I bought it hoping I could study people's faces, stances, outfits, the background. I wanted to study the pictures and respond to them all by myself without the photographer hammering me with images amounting to dogma. I mean, the Empire State Building? Yeah, that's really deep and cuts to the heart of things. Name needs to share, not hoard. But lucky for us all, he was there with a camera and actually took pictures. And of all the Warhol set, Name's autobiography would be one of the most interesting.
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Summary: "Artistic" rather than informative
Review: Billy Name was there and has one-zillion photographs from which to choose, so I was truly disappointed by the "artistic" crud he chose to print. I wanted to see real photographs of real people, not how clever he was at "conveying the feeling" of the time. I resent this book because it could've been so much better. I didn't buy it to see Name's artistic view of a momentary, yet monumental, era. I bought it hoping I could study people's faces, stances, outfits, the background. I wanted to study the pictures and respond to them all by myself without the photographer hammering me with images amounting to dogma. I mean, the Empire State Building? Yeah, that's really deep and cuts to the heart of things. Name needs to share, not hoard. But lucky for us all, he was there with a camera and actually took pictures. And of all the Warhol set, Name's autobiography would be one of the most interesting.
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Summary: Eye Candy to the bone....
Review: The interview w/Billy is great, the pix capture the air of the crowd and the essence of their era...but i wasn't satisfied; it captured the Factory kids but not the factory itself. And the info therein was relatively limited. i feel this book is meant for appreciation and sheer sight-enjoyment, something to be left as an exclamation rather than an explanation.
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Summary: best sixties new york color photography-a work of art!
Review: This misleading title is yet another book to cash in on the Warhol era. The title states "Photographs of Andy Warhol's Factory" when actually maybe half of the photos are of the 2nd factory and the rest are pictures of factory people hanging out at Max's Kansas City, or going to some guys wedding! Who cares! If you expecting to see "The real Factory" and factory culture then forget this book.
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