"I think Sam Wagstaff was an amazing tastemaker and he brought a really unique vision to collecting photographic objects, which is still playing itself out in the collector's market today."
- Director James Crump

Black White + Gray examines the symbiotic relationship between influential curator and collector Sam Wagstaff and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York during the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s. The film peers intensively into Mapplethorpe's love affair with Wagstaff, and his rapid ascendancy...