I photographed Patricia Highsmith at her house in Montcourt, France, in the department of the Seine and Marne, an hour east of Paris. She kept cats, pigs, chickens and snails, otherwise she lived alone. She showed me an album of photographs which contained just pictures of herself naked, taken in her early twenties. There was also a nude picture of her on the wall and I asked where the artist was now. She replied, “He died of some photographer’s poison.”