Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

by Philip Gefter

Book Overview

Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable--and largely overlooked--influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404370
• ISBN13: 9780871404374
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.8"