There’s a book coming out soon that looks like it has some really neat, historical images that include Vespa and Lambretta scooters. The book was originally relased in 1959 and to celebrate the book’s 50th anniversary The Aperture Foundation has revised and will be republishing it.

From the publisher’s web page  “In 1956, a 28–year old William Klein arrived in Rome to assist Federico Fellini on his film Nights of Cabiria (1957). When the start of filming was delayed, Klein spent his time strolling about the city with Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, and other avant-garde Italian writers and artists serving as his guides. It was on these walks that Rome, a radical and brilliant visual diary of the city, was born. First published in 1959, Klein’s Rome features quirky extended captions interspersed with observations about the city by Stendhal, Michelet, Mark Twain, Henry James, and others.

This beautifully produced edition includes Klein’s never-before-seen fashion pictures made in Rome, along with new and updated text by the photographer. Now redesigned to encompass two volumes in a special slipcase, this new edition offers audiences another chance to celebrate this groundbreaking work. As Fellini said, “Rome is a movie, and Klein did it.”

http://www.aperture.org/books/browse-by-photographer/i-m/william-klein-rome.html

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