Magnum Editions: Blackpool, England, 1982 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) though never comfortable

though never comfortable

” And I borrowed his Leica

As a teenager

and he suddenly screamed very loudly

Magnum Editions: Blackpool, England, 1982 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) though never comfortableThroughout the 1980s, after extensive foreign travel, Chris Steele Perkins recorded the rapidly changing social landscape he found on returning to England. Using ideas of pleasure, he explored public rituals that cut across class and location. The resulting book, The Pleasure Principle, is familiar yet disturbing. In Blackpool, he captured a hectic scene on the beach, while a man calmly reads his book a moment that encapsulates how variously people go