“I was first introduced to Great Homer Street market in 1975

a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence – a vision that belies a local mural of a distant

There is a 2cm tar to the blank end-page facing the title page along with a soft crease

Hence our being lost

joy and fear

The Pleasure Principle signature:signed “I was first introduced toThe Pleasure Principle by Chris Steele Perkins First Edition, 1989 Signed by Artisrt Published by Cornerhouse publications About The Pleasure Principle is a powerful and searching photographic portrait of England in the 1980s. Chris Steele Perkins records the rapidly changing social landscape that he found after returning from extensive travels in the third world. Using ideas of pleasure he explores public rituals that cut across class and location.