A race in pictures Mille Miglia

LEONARDO ACERBI, Giorgio Nada Editore, £60, ISBN 978 88 7911 618 3

GIORGIO NADA APPEARS to be on a roll right now, especially with its many race histories. And while there are countless other Mille Miglia works, this is something else entirely. It’s predominately a picture book – but the images are captivating. Acerbi went to great lengths to track down never-before-seen photos, and the overwhelming majority here will be unfamiliar. Offered in Italian and English, the text (mostly informative captions) can take a turn for the florid and confusing, eg ‘Because the lines and the images of this book we will all find, along with the scent of petrol and Marinettian blooming of the bolide, rather than in the statuesque, chronicalistic, portrait-esque and aggressive staticity of the still shots...’ You get the idea. But it is beautifully produced and a must for…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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