THORNTON, John. Pipe Dreams.

Paris: Éditions Dominique Leroy, Collection Vertiges Lumières, 1979. First French edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 31 × 24.5 cm. 125 pages. With colour photographs throughout. Introduction by Peter Mayle. A surreal and erotic series of photographs in which women, bodies and objects are transformed into strange and playful visual fantasies. Thornton’s highly staged compositions combine humour, eroticism and an unmistakable sense of the absurd, creating a dreamlike world in which the boundaries between the human figure and its surroundings continually dissolve. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. Deserved of more recognition.