Magnum Editions: Blackpool, England, 1982 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm)

Magnum Editions: Blackpool, England, 1982 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm)Throughout 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

starting to use Kodachrome film

With journalistic zeal and a keen eye for crucial details

where he continued photographing while supporting himself by working in a Japanese catering business

Steele-Perkins has produced some of the most iconic images of British society in the last half century

has occupied Martin Parr for his entire career

From airports and planes to hotel rooms and self-portraits

a Golden Globe Award

was part of a larger effort to promote art and the ballet in Russia

Age: circa 1980s

Although the pictures were taken in the United States

musical compositions pulsing with a mixture of longing

Most of the victims were the Mayan people