Perfect Day First Book Award 2016 a window onto lives conditioned

a window onto lives conditioned by violence and uncertainty

a landmark exhibition at MoMA

As a way of keeping track of all these images

this book presents 94 colour photographs made with small-format cameras between 1976 and 1981

From 1998 to 2005 Neil Drabble photographed an American teenager

Perfect Day First Book Award 2016 a window onto lives conditionedIn Perfect Day, Txema Salvans photographs Spain's holiday makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car parks, swimming pools are nestled between encroaching buildings, and cranes and cooling towers loom over beaches. In these surreal, banal and humorous scenes, Salvans reveals how the pursuit of leisure persists in spite of the ominous pressures of the built environment, expressing a deeply human