Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
52 %|May 1, 2007|Documentary
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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James Crump
Director
James Crump
Writer
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Cast
Patti Smith
Self
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self (archive footage)
Sam Wagstaff
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Apraxine
Self
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
Dominick Dunne
Self (archive footage)
Raymond Foye
Self
Jeffrey Fraenkel
Self - Fraenkel Gallery
Philippe Garner
Self
Ralph Gibson
Self
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Self - photographer
John Giorno
Self - poet
Tukey Koffend
Self - childhood friend
Eugenia Perry
Self
Ingrid Sischy
Self
Holly Solomon
Self (archive footage)
John Szarkowski
Self - Museum of Modern Art
Paul Walter
Self - collector
Clark Worswick
Self - friend
Joan Juliet Buck
Narrator
Gordon Baldwin
Self - Getty Museum
John Richardson
Self - writer
Tony Smith
Self (archive footage)
Richard Tuttle
Self