Sam Wagstaff: the first truly photograph collector
Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff’s transformation from
innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. I really would like to watch his documentary by James Crump. Sam became the lover and mentor of Robbert Mapplethorpe, So it is also thanks to him that we have these super duper pictures.
Wagstaff’s collection of over 2,500 masterworks from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries became part of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1984. He died of AIDS in 1989.
innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. I really would like to watch his documentary by James Crump. Sam became the lover and mentor of Robbert Mapplethorpe, So it is also thanks to him that we have these super duper pictures.
Wagstaff’s collection of over 2,500 masterworks from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries became part of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1984. He died of AIDS in 1989.
