Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (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.
- Released
- 2007-05-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- James Crump
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 11 votes
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
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