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Black, white + gray / a film by James Crump ; LM Media GmbH + Arthouse Films.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987.
- Wagstaff, Samuel J.
- Mapplethorpe, Robert.
- Photographers--United States--Biography.
- Photographers.
- Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (73 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Black, white & gray
- Black, white and gray
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oscilloscope Pictures, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A look at the life and contribution of Sam Wagstaff (1921-1987), curator, trend-setter, collector of photographs, and lover and guide to Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), told chronologically with archival footage, photographs, and contemporary interviews. Wagstaff is upper class, handsome, and gay, reinventing himself after World War II as a curator, with extraordinary success. By the 1970s, he's friends with Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, his mother has left him a fortune, and he's collecting old photographs by the score. Many who comment discuss his largely forgotten contribution to art - the discovery of photography. The film sets the record straight.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Joan Juliet Buck.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed August 22, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1397451168
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