But Willie/Coutts was also a prolific photographer, employing models whom he tied up — generally in lingerie, stockings and heels — both as reference studies for his artwork and for bondage photographs in their own right.

Just before Christmas last year — on December 9, the late artist’s birthday — JB Rund, the world’s leading authority on John Willie, published a massive anthology of Coutts’ photography called Possibilities.

A companion volume of similar size, weight and style to The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline published 17 years earlier, Possibilities contains more than 1,360 photographs — many never before made public — taken by Willie in Sydney, New York and Los Angeles between 1937 and 1961.

Possibilities is, however, much more than just an exhaustive collection of pictures. It also includes a number of incredibly thoroughly-researched texts that build into what is surely the most complete account available of the artist and the various different situations in which he worked.

At the request of the book’s publisher, we also, back in 2016, synchronised publication of our review of this magnificent tome — which became our December 2016 cover story — with Willie’s birthday.