“Sam Wagstaff was considered a great photography collector,” Holly Solomon observes in Patricia Morrisroe’s 1975 biography Mapplethorpe. “I wouldn’t have touched Robert without Sam.

It was only when Wagstaff began his relationship with unknown photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that he started ... Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff at the Corcoran Gallery of ...

One assumes this is Philip Gefter's way of introducing Sam Wagstaff, a lesser-known personality in the art world, by association with the better-known Robert Mapplethorpe, a controversial ...

I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator of the ... Robert and his longtime lover and patron, Sam Wagstaff, were staples at the Orange Tree, a small Ukrainian restaurant on Houston Street ...

The result, “Robert Gets His Nipple Pierced ... It was Croland who introduced Mapplethorpe to Sam Wagstaff, who would become his patron, his dealer, and his lover. (Wagstaff would die ...

Untitled (London), 1973 Polaroid de Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–89). Untitled, (Sam Wagstaff), ca. 1973 Mapplethorpe retrata a su amante Sam Wagstaff en una Polaroid ...

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert ... (Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the biopic’s North American rights in June). Timoner worked on ...

A sour, undernourished biopic, “Mapplethorpe” is a disappointment just shy of a disaster — a portrait of a boundary-destroying artist that stays well within the safe borders of convention.

Sam Wagstaff knew there was something special about Robert Mapplethorpe the moment he set eyes on him. "Who is that?" he asked, pointing to a small photo-booth picture lying on a friend's table.