Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography - Softcover

Gefter, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631490958 ISBN 13: 9781631490958

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016

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"His [Wagstaff's] role in establishing photography as a major art form is given its due here." -- Apollo Magazine "...Philip Gefter tells the fascinating story of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, who helped create a market boom when he turned his eye to photography in the 1970s." -- Popular Photography "Gefter is very good on New York's gay milieu and his book is full of racy details." -- The Independent "...this excellent and overdue biography..." -- The Telegraph "...striking, sexy biography of a charismatic man in the best and worst of times." -- The Times

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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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• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1631490958
• ISBN 13: 9781631490958
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480