Motorized Milanese

Motorized Milanese

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Motorized Milanese

New Wealth in the Old World


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23.9 × 16 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0200
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Europe's Wealth) 3/62 15) MOTORIZED MILANESE drive down streets \ bright with banners advertising different gasloines \ and oils. The traffic problem is acute here, as \ elsewhere in Italy, for every fifthre Milanese owns \ a car. One result: the municipality is building a subway. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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