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

The read

Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 17m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• James CrumpDirector
• James CrumpWriter

Cast

• Patti SmithSelf
• Robert MapplethorpeSelf (archive footage)
• Sam WagstaffSelf (archive footage)
• Pierre ApraxineSelf
• Dick CavettSelf (archive footage)
• Dominick DunneSelf (archive footage)
• Raymond FoyeSelf
• Jeffrey FraenkelSelf - Fraenkel Gallery
• Philippe GarnerSelf
• Ralph GibsonSelf
• Timothy Greenfield-SandersSelf - photographer
• John GiornoSelf - poet

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