For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

Italy is famous for its laid-back approach to living, known as 'la dolce vita', or 'the good life'. And these pictures from the 1980s, taken by Charles H. Traub, encapsulate it perfectly.

Castiglioncello was once the town that once unseated Sorrento as a favourite summertime escape for the icons of Italian film's golden era, and now it's making a comeback.

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

Ferdinando Scianna Italy, 1988

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

Throughout the 1980s, American photographer Charles H. Traub was a frequent visitor to Italy – on his travels all over the country, he was able to capture moments of intimacy and humor in everyday Italian life. The vintage photos are now collected together for the first time in a book called “La Dolce Via” - via means street in Italian, to underline the photographer's search for real life in the streets of Italy. "La Dolce Via" is available here. In the meantime, check some of the photos in our slide show below. Photographs by Charles H. Traub from the book "La Dolce Via - Italy in the 1980s."

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

With its timeless photogenic setting, Capri continues to entice and fascinate travelers. From the 1950s to the 1980s, here is a compilation of the best vintage shots of the island's fabulous summers.

Amalfi, 1982 Charles Traub/Damiani Photographer Charles Traub has been documenting the world through his all-seeing lens for the better part of fifty years, but

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

Ragazzini in costume, gelati, preti e signore: un bel libro raccoglie le immagini scattate da Charles Traub a Napoli, Venezia, Roma, Milano

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

With its timeless photogenic setting, Capri continues to entice and fascinate travelers. From the 1950s to the 1980s, here is a compilation of the best vintage shots of the island's fabulous summers.

These vivid color photographs were taken by photographer Charles H. Traub (born 1945) in Italy during the early 1980s. He turns his emphatically American gaze upon the streets and byways of Italy, from Milan to Marsala. Traub's brilliant blues, reds and yellows accent the baroque posturing and gestures of strangers and ordinary people. (Photos by Charles H. Traub, via Shooting Film)

Amalfi, 1982 Charles Traub/Damiani Photographer Charles Traub has been documenting the world through his all-seeing lens for the better part of fifty years, but

Photographer Charles H. Traub captured spectacular moments of intimacy and humor in everyday Italian life. From Traub's new book, Dolce Via: Italy in the 1980s.

Italy has been through so much history that anything you say about the land and its people is doomed to repeat what has been said...

Amalfi, 1982 Charles Traub/Damiani Photographer Charles Traub has been documenting the world through his all-seeing lens for the better part of fifty years, but

Italy has been through so much history that anything you say about the land and its people is doomed to repeat what has been said...

Amalfi, 1982 Charles Traub/Damiani Photographer Charles Traub has been documenting the world through his all-seeing lens for the better part of fifty years, but

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'

For over fifty years photographer Charles H. Traub has been capturing expressive moments around him, but his most impressive works have to be the ones from the 80s, when he first traveled to Italy and witnessed the iconic street life Italians call 'La Dolce Vita.'