These "Views from a window" at his friends apartment at Via della Lungarina 65 in Rome were taken in 1953. List was handicapped with an injured foot and could not leave the apartment. Therefore he spent time sitting at the window, utilizing a friends telephoto lens for the first time, creating this series and the people of Trastevere, the working class district of Rome. The small Leica camera becomes a new favorite tool for him that influences his style to become more spontaneous in the following decade.