| Description |
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Arthouse films |
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Arthouse films (Series)
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital stereo. |
| Performer |
Narrator, Joan Juliet Buck. |
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Pierre Apraxine, Dick Cavett, Dominick Dunne, Raymond Foye, Ralph Gibson, Jean-Jacques Naudet, John Richardson, Patti Smith, Paul Walter, Clark Worswick, and many more. |
| Credits |
Directors of photography, Christopher Felver [and others] ; editor, Dave Giles ; music, J. Ralph ; executive producers: Stanley F. Buchthal, David Koh, Maja Hoffmann. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007. |
| Summary |
"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. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and Mapplethorpe would be at the center of it. Wagstaff pulled him from his suburban Queens existence, gave him a camera and brought him into this art world that seemed to be waiting for him, creating the man whose infamous images instilled emotions ranging from awe to anger. In turn, Mapplethorpe brought the formerly starched-shirt preppie to the world of drugs and gay S-and-M sex, well-documented in his still-startling photographs. Twenty-five years separated the lovers, but their relationship was symbiotic to its core, and the two remained together forever. The film also explores the relationship both men had with musician/poet Patti Smith, whose 1975 debut album 'Horses' catapulted her to fame."--Official website, http://www.blackwhitegray.com/about_film.html. |
| Note |
Bonus feature: footage of Sam Wagstaff at the symposium "Photography: Where We Are" accompanying an exhibition of photographs from Wagstaff's collection at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1978 (19 min.). |
| Awards |
Official Selection, Tribeca International Film Festival and SilverDocs/AFI Discovery Documentary Festival. |
| Subject |
Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987.
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Mapplethorpe, Robert.
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Smith, Patti.
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Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Photography -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Mapplethorpe, Robert. (OCoLC)fst00099704
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Smith, Patti. (OCoLC)fst00133124
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Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987. (OCoLC)fst00057043
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Photographers. (OCoLC)fst01061605
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Photography -- Collectors and collecting.
(OCoLC)fst01061725
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Documentaries and Factual Films
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Biographical films. (OCoLC)fst01710277
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst01710390
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Biographical films.
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Documentary films.
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Biographical films.
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Nonfiction films.
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| Added Author |
Crump, James. Screenwriter. Director.
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Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987.
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Smith, Patti.
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Buck, Joan Juliet. Narrator.
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Buchthal, Stanley F. Producer.
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Koh, David. Producer.
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Hoffmann, Maja. Producer.
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Ralph, J. (Joshua) Musical director.
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Arthouse Inc.
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LM Media (Firm)
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New Video Group.
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Arthouse Films.
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| Note |
Subtitle on container: Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe |
| Added Title |
Black white and gray |
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Black white plus gray |
| ISBN |
1422975894 |
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9781422975893 |
| Standard No. |
767685212837 |
| Music No. |
NNVG212838 New Video |
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