Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)

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.

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Self (archive footage)

Sam Wagstaff

Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)

Dominick Dunne

Self (archive footage)

Jeffrey Fraenkel

Self - Fraenkel Gallery

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Self - photographer

John Giorno

Self - poet

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