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Patricia Highsmith, the Number One Mystery Writer

1978
(American, 1935–2015)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 x 20.9 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.588
Location: not on view
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The reclusive crime writer Patricia Highsmith was fascinated by snails and once brought 100 of them to a cocktail party in her handbag.

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Charles Harbutt invites us to feel as if we, in place of him, are the visitor at Patricia Highsmith's home in a small village south of Paris, France. Here, surrounded by plants and cats, she devotes herself to writing. The photographer sits on one side of a coffee table strewn with an ashtray, books, wine glasses, her teacup, his coffee cup. The writer stares back at him, silent, with cigarette in hand.
Patricia Highsmith, the Number One Mystery Writer

Patricia Highsmith, the Number One Mystery Writer

1978

Charles Harbutt

(American, 1935–2015)
America

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