Holden wrote "Because Mapplethorpe's story is already familiar, the movie devotes most of its time to Wagstaff, whose personal history is a classic case of repressed or closeted homosexuality belatedly and furiously unleashed." In 2014, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, a biography of Wagstaff, by Philip Gefter, was published by Norton/Liveright, and won the 2014 Marfield Prize for Arts Writing. See also LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City References Further reading Crump, James, "Art of Acquisition: The Eye of Sam Wagstaff," published in the Archives of American Art Journal Vol. 46: 3–4, Fall 2007, pages 5–13 Hainley, Bruce, "The Eye of Sam Wagstaff", ArtForum, April 1997 Official Movie Website for Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe, 2007, directed by James Crump Gefter, Philip, NY Times: "The Man Who Made Mapplethorpe", April 24, 2007, NY Times Hilton Als, Downtown Chronicles, "WAGSTAFF'S EYE", The New Yorker, January 13, 1997, p. 36 Gefter, Philip, "Sam Wagstaff: The Photographist," 2010, published in the Getty Research Journal No.2: pages 193-202 External links Archives of American Art. Samuel Wagstaff papers, 1932-1985 Detroit Institute of Arts. The Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. records, 1956-1978 1921 births 1987 deaths American art collectors American art curators Gay men LGBT people from New York (state) AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) People associated with the Detroit Institute of Arts People from Manhattan Yale University alumni New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni Hotchkiss School alumni American people of Polish descent 20th-century American photographers Photographers from New York City Deaths from pneumonia in New York City United States Navy officers 20th-century LGBT people