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Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. (November 4, 1921 – January 14, 1987) was an American art curator, collector, and the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (who was also his lifetime companion) and poet-punk rocker Patti Smith.
24 avr. 2007 · Tall, handsome and rich would be one way to describe Sam Wagstaff, a legendary figure in the international art world of the 1970s and ’80s. Urbane is another. Iconoclastic,...
Learn about the little-known photographs of Sam Wagstaff, a pioneering photography collector and curator. See how he captured his friends, lovers and the world with a personal and artistic vision.
It's the first major biography of Sam Wagstaff, a name as obscure as Mapplethorpe's is infamous. Sam was conspicuously known as the lover, mentor, and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe," Gefter...
6 févr. 2013 · Figure-clé de la scène photographique à partir de l’époque où il commença sa collection en 1973, Wagstaff découvrit le potentiel de la photographie grâce à Robert Mapplethorpe. Il mourut à l’âge de 65 ans le 14 janvier 1987.
21 mars 2016 · Samuel J Wagstaff Jr – a New York aristocrat, curator and Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover – collected over 26,000 photographs in his lifetime, of everything from grisly medical images to eerie ...
11 juin 2015 · Learn about Sam Wagstaff, the influential curator and collector who supported Robert Mapplethorpe and elevated photography to an art form. Read a review of Gefter's book that explores Wagstaff's life, love, and legacy.
