Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

Overview

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.

Directed by James Crump

Top cast

Patti Smith

Self

Robert Mapplethorpe

Self (archive footage)

S

Sam Wagstaff

Self (archive footage)

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Pierre Apraxine

Self

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)

Dominick Dunne

Self (archive footage)

R

Raymond Foye

Self

J

Jeffrey Fraenkel

Self - Fraenkel Gallery

P

Philippe Garner

Self

R

Ralph Gibson

Self

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Self - photographer

John Giorno

Self - poet

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Tukey Koffend

Self - childhood friend

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Jean-Jacques Naudet

Self

E

Eugenia Perry

Self

I

Ingrid Sischy

Self

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Holly Solomon

Self (archive footage)

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John Szarkowski

Self - Museum of Modern Art

P

Paul Walter

Self - collector

C

Clark Worswick

Self - friend

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