Saturday, September 22, 2012

Film: Black, White, & Gray

I recently watched an interesting 2007 documentary "Black, White, and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe." Informative film about both characters and their influence on the photography field with numerous interviews with Patti Smith. The film also brought to attention the importance of photographic (or any art for that matter) collections - what do large bodies of collected work reveal about the collector, society, and history? In my own current work, I find this question of collecting interesting as I gather various images/portrayals of Hawaii.

http://www.blackwhitegray.com/



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