RECOMMENDED James Crump’s “Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe” is art and artifact, combining the photography favored after a lifetime of disavowing the form by curator Wagstaff, whose eyes were opened by his younger boyfriend, provocateur Mapplethorpe. Extensive interviews include those who looked upon the waspy Wagstaff as a sugar daddy, but also more sympathetic ones from such figures as Dominick Dunne and also Patti Smith, whose life, love and work mingled so much with Mapplethorpe’s. Myths were made. 72m. (Ray Pride)
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