(James Crump, USA 2007, 77 min., Video)

The revealing documentary, Black White + Gray, explores the complex relationship between the innovative museum curator and influential art collector Sam Wagstaff, and the “bad boy of photography” Robert Mapplethorpe – both major forces in the art world. In doing so, first-time director James Crump reestablishes Sam Wagstaff’s importance as artistic visionary, instead of a mere collaborator to Mapplethorpe’s meteoric rise in the art world. Just who is Sam Wagstaff? He only single-handedly established the modern market for photography, and is also the influence behind the works of Mapplethorpe, his lover. This film gives us the dirt and the facts on the collaboration that took the world of photography by storm, while also paying tribute to a forgotten icon.

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