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OSCAR MARZAROLI achieved full public recognition in the mid-1980s through two exhibitions of his work held by the THIRD EYE CENTRE and by the publication in 1984 of One Man's World: Photographs 1955-84.
Born in Castiglione Vara, Northern Italy in 1933 his family moved to Glasgow when he was two. He grew up experiencing first-hand the evolution of an industrial city adjusting to life in the post-war era. He attended Glasgow School of Art and worked as a photographic assistant in Glasgow. In the 1950s he was a freelance photo-journalist in Stockholm and London before he returned to Glasgow in 1959. His metier was his ability to capture with immediacy, humanity and affection the people, places and streets of his adopted city. Not only urban scenes, for he brought the same perception and candour to his photographs of working lives in Orkney, the Northern and Outer Isles and Aberdeenshire. Here are some of those iconic images, which recall a Glasgow and a wider Scotland that existed forty to fifty years ago and which have now all but disappeared.
During his career his work was widely exhibited and published. Oscar Marzaroli died on 26th August 1988, a few months after the original publication of Shades of Grey. The dozen images shown here are from the Oscar Marzaroli Collection www.oscarmarzaroli.com for which grateful acknowledgement is accorded to the Oscar Marzarioli Trust, The OPM Marzaroli Collection and to Anne Marzaroli. |
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