Monsieur: Patrick O’Higgins – The Lost Photographer

With a preface by Nicky Haslam, an essay by Marianne Hinton (Patrick O’Higgins’s niece) and a biographical essay by historian Jane Tippett. 

Patrick O’Higgins (1922-1980) was best known for his bestselling memoir Madame, about the time that he spent working with the cosmetics tycoon Helena Rubinstein. But he also had a less well-known life as a photographer.

Now, in Monsieur, the lost photographs of O’Higgins are reproduced. The images include sitters such as Stephen Spender, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, John Richardson, Jean Cocteau and Somerset Maugham alongside thoughtful and revealing portraits of less well-known characters and evocative genre scenes. The result is a compelling and enigmatic insight into the art, literary, café society and aristocratic worlds that Patrick O’Higgins inhabited.