Originally published in 1959, this 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 frames are very modern, grainy, taken in a fast way, choosing spontaneity and instinct over artifact and composition. According to Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, who included it in The Photobook: A History vol. 1, it is particularly notable for using many of the bookmaking ideas developed by William Klein and by Dutch photographers such as Ed van der Elsken and Johan van der Keuken, and has a vibrant, cinematic feeling. This edition follows the first exactly, and adds a supplement in which the authors explain in detail the making of each picture.