In 2011, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University received 30 prints from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The set includes some of the more challenging images for which the photographer is ...

“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 ...

Well-known collector Sam Wagstaff is also there. He was also a lover and a major force in Robert Mapplethorpe’s development as a photographer. Complementing the Getty Mapplethorpe exhibit is ...

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Today would have been Robert Mapplethorpe’s 68th birthday ... the biography posits that without Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe’s older patron and lover, he may never have become the ...

He may be better known as as the romantic partner, patron and champion of rebel photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but Sam Wagstaff was already 50 when the two men met in 1971, and had a noteworthy ...

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 ...

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.