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

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

77 mins | Documentary | May 1, 2007

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.

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

77 mins | Documentary | May 1, 2007

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Arthouse Films
Original title Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Directors James Crump
Writers James Crump

Cast

Patti Smith

as Self

Robert Mapplethorpe

as Self (archive footage)

Sam Wagstaff

as Self (archive footage)

Pierre Apraxine

as Self

Dick Cavett

as Self (archive footage)

Dominick Dunne

as Self (archive footage)

Raymond Foye

as Self

Jeffrey Fraenkel

as Self - Fraenkel Gallery

Philippe Garner

as Self

Ralph Gibson

as Self

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

as Self - photographer

John Giorno

as Self - poet

Tukey Koffend

as Self - childhood friend

Eugenia Perry

as Self

Ingrid Sischy

as Self

Holly Solomon

as Self (archive footage)

John Szarkowski

as Self - Museum of Modern Art

Paul Walter

as Self - collector

Clark Worswick

as Self - friend

Joan Juliet Buck

as Narrator

Gordon Baldwin

as Self - Getty Museum

John Richardson

as Self - writer

Tony Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Tuttle

as Self