Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.
James Crump
Director
Patti Smith
Self
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self (archive footage)
Sam Wagstaff
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Apraxine
Self
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
Dominick Dunne
Self (archive footage)
Raymond Foye
Self
Jeffrey Fraenkel
Self - Fraenkel Gallery
Philippe Garner
Self
Ralph Gibson
Self
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Self - photographer
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