Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography - Hardcover

Gefter, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871404370 ISBN 13: 9780871404374

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015

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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 of AIDS. The result is a definitive and memorable portrait of a man and an era.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0871404370
• ISBN 13: 9780871404374
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar