Wagstaff: Before and after Mapplethorpe

Gefter,Philip

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Author
Gefter,Philip
Publish Date
11/01/2015
Book Type
hardcover
Publisher Name
LIVRGHT
Subtitle
A Biography
Number of Pages
480
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
1631490958
ISBN-13
9781631490958
SKU
9781631490958

Description

Winner of the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
This "admiring and absorbing biography" (Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) charts Sam Wagstaff's incalculable influence on contemporary art, photography, and gay identity. A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon). Now, in Philip Gefter's groundbreaking biography, he emerges as a cultural visionary. Gefter documents the influence of the man who―although known today primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe―"almost invented the idea of photography as art" (Edmund White). Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe braids together Wagstaff's personal transformation from closeted society bachelor to a rebellious curator with a broader portrait of the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, creating a definitive portrait of a man and his era. 32 pages of photographs