CULTURE
Photos: Delayed Exposure
Sam Wagstaff was Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover—and, says a new book, the forgotten patron who changed photography.
by Fan Zhong
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Sam Wagstaff’s Self-Portraits, 1973. Courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.
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Wagstaff in his apartment at Lafayette Towers, Detroit, 1970. Photograph by Enrico Natali.
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Wagstaff at an Andy Warhol opening at Castelli Gallery, New York, 1964. Photograph by Billy Name.