#Holly Faram

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Holly Faram, John Willie’s wife and muse

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John Willie

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John Alexander Scott Couts (1902-1962) was born in Singapore and grew up in England. In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his models, and they married in 1942. Around 1945-47 Coutts moved to New York City via Montreal, in order to publish his bondage and fetish magazine Bizarre; Holly chose to remain in Australia. At this time he adopted the name ‘John Willie’

As a bondage artist he is best known for his character Sweet Gwendoline. After publishing 20 issues of Bizarre he moved to Hollywood, California. He developed a brain tumor in 1961 and was forced to stop his mail order business. He destroyed his archives and returned to England, where he died.

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John Willie : A Bizarre Life (books, 2024)

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By Jane Garrett

"With his iconic art and the groundbreaking content of his Bizarre magazine, John Willie is perhaps the person most responsible for introducing fetish style to the mainstream. Illustrated with examples of John’s work, this in-depth exploration shines the spotlight on the man behind the drawings of buxom beauties and the photographs of expertly executed erotic bondage, delving into• his early life from his 1902 birth in England as John Coutts through his education, military service, immigration to Australia, and employment as a seaman and laborer;• the chance encounter with a network of high-heel fetishists that incited John’s discovery of his community and his calling in the world of erotic art;• his relationship with model, wife, and muse Holly Faram;• his move to the United States and his place in the mid-20th-century fetish scene populated by artists, publishers, editors, and models such as Charles Guyette, Robert Harrison, Edythe Farrell, Irving and Paula Klaw, Bettie Page, and Eric Stanton;• the debut of his groundbreaking Bizarre magazine in 1946, through which he created a space for like-minded people to share and celebrate fantasies—from high heels and cross-dressing to blindfolds and bondage—that the mainstream world found “bizarre”;• his career-long struggles against the forces of governmental oversight;• and how the murders by so-called “Glamour Girl Killer” Harvey Glatman—who posed as a bondage photographer to lure his victims—helped spur John’s eventual disillusionment with the world of fetish art he helped build.Ahead of his time, John's influences can still be seen in the worlds of art and fashion, and he was an advocate for freedom of expression in dress, gender identity, and sexuality—issues that are still hotly debated today. Drawing heavily from John’s extensive interactions with researchers at the Kinsey Institute, Garrett provides a close-up portrait of the artist whose ideas have fed the erotic fantasies of generations of people.Size: 6.0in x 9.0in | Pages: 176 | 61 color & b/w imagesBinding: HardbackISBN: 9780764368332"

Avalable for pre-order, comes out in October 2024

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I painted a background? Wrow

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HOLLY FARAM

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wife and muse of John Willie, Holly Faram

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Holly Anna Faram

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Holly Anna Faram

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Artwork from John Alexander Scot Coutts (John Willie) In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his models, and they married in 1942. Around 1945-47 Coutts moved to New York City via Montreal, in order to publish his bondage and fetish magazine Bizarre; Holly chose to remain in Australia. At this time he adopted the name ‘John Willie’ As a bondage artist he is best known for his character Sweet Gwendoline. After publishing 20 issues of Bizarre he moved to Hollywood, California. He developed a brain tumor in 1961 and was forced to stop his mail order business. He destroyed his archives and returned to England, where he died.

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The BEST wife in the world

Holly Anna Faram ( John Willie’s muse & wife )

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Holly Faram wife of artist and Bizarre magazine creator John Willie

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Portrait d'Holly Faram paru dans le magazine ''Bizarre'', années 1940 - Source Kasbah Salome.