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

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

2007/05/01 • Released

Documentary
4.8
1h 17m

Overview

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.

Director : James Crump

Casts
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Self

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe

Self (archive footage)

Sam Wagstaff

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Apraxine

Self

Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)

Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne

Self (archive footage)

Raymond Foye

Self

Jeffrey Fraenkel

Self - Fraenkel Gallery

Philippe Garner

Self

Ralph Gibson

Self

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Self - photographer

John Giorno

John Giorno

Self - poet

Tukey Koffend

Self - childhood friend

Jean-Jacques Naudet

Self

Eugenia Perry

Self

Ingrid Sischy

Self

Holly Solomon

Self (archive footage)

John Szarkowski

Self - Museum of Modern Art

Paul Walter

Self - collector

Clark Worswick

Self - friend

Joan Juliet Buck

Narrator

Gordon Baldwin

Self - Getty Museum

John Richardson

Self - writer

Tony Smith

Self (archive footage)

Richard Tuttle

Self

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