LISBOA, CIDADE TRISTE E ALEGRE
Victor Palla and Costa MartinsLisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre, originally published in 1959, is a symphony about Lisbon of the fifties, showing the city in its different aspects. The graphic poem, as Victor Palla and Costa Martins liked to call it, constructs a new city with (photographic and poetic) images, a city in the process of assimilating an international style. The photos are very modern, grainy, taken in a fast way, choosing spontaneity and instinct to artifact and