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The Pleasure Principle: A Picture of 1980s Britain at Play

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Chris Steele-Perkins G.B. ENGLAND. London. A wedding reception. The groom is a Thalidomide victim. 1989. From The Pleasure Principle. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins British Territorial Army practice repelling a Soviet mock invasion. From The Pleasure Principle. London. England. GB. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins At a Night Club. From The Pleasure Principle. London. England. GB. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Bed and breakfast hotels. Blackpool, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Along the Golden Mile, Blackpool, England, 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins National Front movement demonstration. England, 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins G.B. ENGLAND. Cumbria. Landscape in Cumbria. 1989. From the Pleasure Principle © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins A wedding reception. The groom is a Thalidomide victim. London, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Vacancies sign in a Bed and Breakfast. Blackpool, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | The Pleasure Principle Blackpool, England. 1982. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the Conservative Party Conference. England. 1985. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Stevie Starr 'Unusualist' regurgitates a live goldfish, at home. He specializes in regurgitating things like light bulbs, coins and even small rubric cubes. England. 1987. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins A fight in a night club. London, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | The Pleasure Principle Picnic at the Glyndebourne opera. England. 1988. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | The Pleasure Principle Juliana's summer party. London, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Cabaret artist, Nightmare, in their garden. England. 1987. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Juliana's summer party. London, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Father Christmas delivering presents on Christmas Day. London, England. December 25, 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | The Pleasure Principle Wedding photos in Dulwich Park. London, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins A Buddhist retreat. Northampton, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins A photo opportunity for the press during a Territorial Army exercise. England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins A park garden. Leamington Spa, England. 1989 © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Students under hypnosis at Spring Ball. Oxford, England. 1989. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos