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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

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By (author): Philip Gefter

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 Wagstaffs 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 Wagstaffs personal life against the rise of photography as a major art form and the simultaneous formation of the gay rights movement, Gefters absorbing biography provides a searing portrait of New York just before and during the age of AIDS. The result is a definitive and memorable portrait of a man and an era.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 880g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780871404374

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.

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