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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Philip Gefter
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Description for Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: ACX; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 35. Weight in Grams: 670.
Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society bachelor of the 1940s to his emergence as rebellious curator. In 1972, his meeting with twenty-five-year-old Mapplethorpe, would lead to his legacy as world-class photography collector and cultural arbiter. Positioning Wagstaff's personal life against the rise of photography as a major art form and the simultaneous formation of the gay rights movement, Gefter's absorbing biography provides a searing portrait of New York just before and during the age ... Read more
Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society bachelor of the 1940s to his emergence as rebellious curator. In 1972, his meeting with twenty-five-year-old Mapplethorpe, would lead to his legacy as world-class photography collector and cultural arbiter. Positioning Wagstaff's personal life against the rise of photography as a major art form and the simultaneous formation of the gay rights movement, Gefter's absorbing biography provides a searing portrait of New York just before and during the age ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490958
SKU
V9781631490958
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Ref
99-24
About Philip Gefter
Philip Gefter was on staff at The New York Times for over fifteen years, where he wrote regularly about photography. His essays are collected in the book Photography After Frank (2009). He lives in New York City.
Reviews for Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
...striking, sexy biography of a charismatic man in the best and worst of times.
The Times ...this excellent and overdue biography...
The Telegraph Gefter is very good on New York's gay milieu and his book is full of racy details.
The Independent ...Philip Gefter tells the fascinating story of art curator ... Read more
The Times ...this excellent and overdue biography...
The Telegraph Gefter is very good on New York's gay milieu and his book is full of racy details.
The Independent ...Philip Gefter tells the fascinating story of art curator ... Read more