Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography - Brossura

Gefter, Philip

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ISBN 10: 1631490958 ISBN 13: 9781631490958

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2016

Riassunto

A broad-scale portrait of the intellectual and cultural visionary and lover of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe traces his evolution from a 1940s society bachelor to his emergence as a counterculture curator and world-class collector. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"This thorough, entertaining biography portrays a blue blood who charmed East Coast society but also loved to scandalize...Gefter captures the brilliance of that world and its decline in the face of AIDS." -- The New Yorker "Gefter delivers the most persuasive account yet of how Wagstaff encouraged a small coterie of likeminded collectors-many of them gay, and several of them my friends-who raised vintage photographs from quaint curiosities to a 'serious' artistic medium. Mapplethorpe was the inadvertent catalyst of this historic shift." -- Martin Filler - The New York Review of Books "Comprehensive and scholarly...Gefter's smart, sexy and eloquent biography of this commanding arbiter of taste and culture serves as a definitive and memorable portrait of last century's intersection of gay life and the evolution of the hobby of photography into a way of producing collectible fine art." --Robert J. Feldman - Huffington Post

L'autore:

Philip Gefter was on staff at The New York Times for over fifteen years, where he wrote regularly about photography. His essays are collected in the book Photography After Frank (2009).

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1631490958
• ISBN 13: 9781631490958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 458