Friday, 19 December 2008

Oscar Marzaroli

BBC iPlayer : Public Artwork


On Radio 4 this week there was an interesting program about Oscar Marzaroli (Italian born "Scottish" photographer). The program is now available on BBC iPlayer, here's the link.

Italian-born "Scottish" photographer Marzaroli is most famous for his 1960's images of the Gorbals.

On the corner of Cumberland Street and Queen Elizabeth Gardens (in Glasgow) there's a piece of public artwork based on one of his most famous images. The artwork is three separate sculptures of three boys in their mother's high heels playing in the street. The original photograph is a great example of "right-place right-time" photojournalism. Here's a link.