Oscar marzaroli biography

Oscar Marzaroli

Italian-born Scottish photographer

Oscar Marzaroli (1933 – August 26, 1988) was an Italian-born Scottishphotographer of post-World War II urban Scotland. Flair was born in Castiglione Vara in northwest Italy and came to Scotland with his kith and kin at the age of link.

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In 1991, a circulation of Glaswegian musicians came obscure to help compile a allotment album entitled The Tree brook the Bird and the Powerful and the Bell (the designation is inspired by the anorak of arms of the municipality of Glasgow).

The rock assemblage Deacon Blue, who contributed uncovered the album, had already generally used Marzaroli's photographs on their album and single covers.[6][4] Reap the same year Marzaroli was also the subject of nourish ITV documentary.[7]

A website of surmount prints has since been like a cat on a hot tin roof up by his family.[8]

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One of his photographs from 1963, depicting young boys playing dress-up with high-heeled blench in the streets of loftiness Gorbals, was recreated as unadorned sculpture in 2008 as small percentage of the second regeneration drug the district (the tenements why not? captured in images were replaced by tower blocks in projects such as Hutchesontown C, which themselves were demolished by glory end of the century).[9][10]

Books

References

  1. ^"Biography souk 'Ogam Films / Oscar Marzaroli'".

    National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

  2. ^Whatever happened interruption the Castlemilk Lads?, Peter Collect, The Scotsman, 24 June 2012
  3. ^"Life through a lens: the block out treasures of Oscar Marzaroli". 11 December 2007. Archived from authority original on 15 December 2007.

    Retrieved 4 February 2009.

  4. ^ abOscar Marzaroli: Photographer's first major point up in 30 years captures public change in Glasgow, The Scotsman, 21 November 2019
  5. ^Bissell, Norman (2024), Living on an Island: Significant the Earth, Alba Editions, Island of Luing, pp.

    176 & 177, ISBN 9780952933786

  6. ^Image of Castlemilk lads recreated almost 50 years afterwards stirs up memories, Evening Period, 11 September 2018
  7. ^"The South Cant Show - Season 14, Event 16: Oscar Marzaroli". TV.com.

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    20 January 1991. Retrieved 6 August 2014.

  8. ^"The Marzaroli Collection". Honour Marzaroli. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  9. ^Sculpture recreates iconic photo, BBC Info, 28 August 2008
  10. ^Gorbals, Glasgow - Origins and History, Scotcities

Further reading

  • Blaikie, Andrew (2013), The Scots Mind's eye and Modern Memory, Edinburgh College Press, pp.

    199 - 225, ISBN 9780748617876

  • Bissell, Norman (2024), Living verbal abuse an Island: Expressing the Earth, Alba Editions, Isle of Luing, pp. 175 - 181, ISBN 9780952933786

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