Traumnovelle

Traumnovelle - translated means Dream story ... and is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. It details the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin and culminates in a masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger. It was also the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

This series of pictures is from an original commission for Marie Claire UK illustrating a modern sophisticated 'swinging' phenomena.