When Wagstaff met Mapplethorpe

Once the US curator and collector Sam Wagstaff had decided that photography was an undervalued art form, his appetite became voracious—an enthusiasm shared and supported by his protégé and boyfriend, the artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
In a new book, The Thrill of the Chase, Paul Martineau, the associate curator in the department of photography at Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum, describes Wagstaff’s nine-year spending spree on images by famous and obscure photogr