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Thousands of negatives of photographs the photographer Billy Name took in Andy Warhol’s Factory in the 1960s have gone missing.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/arts/design/09billy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
sometime in the last two years, Mr. Name’s archive of negatives went missing. Mr. Name left it in the care of a photography agent, Kevin Kushel, a former director of The Associated Press’s photo archive who went on to form his own stock-photography company, and whom Mr. Name said he had not been able to contact for months. The disappearance of the negatives has alarmed not just Mr. Name and his circle of friends and supporters but also scholars, who describe the images as an important historical record of a pivotal time in art history.