{"id":7133,"date":"2018-07-22T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:34:32","slug":"oscar-marzaroli-scottish-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/2018\/07\/oscar-marzaroli-scottish-snapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Marzaroli: Scottish snapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I had no idea that the extraordinary photos of Oscar Marzaroli are now available for all on the web at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscarmarzaroli.com\/home.html\">this dedicated site&nbsp;<\/a>, courtesy of Anne Marzaroli, until a chance search on Google gave me the link.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This must surely be one of the most extraordinary collections of photos of 20th century Scotland, and Glasgow in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-22-at-15.20.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-22-at-15.20.47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-22-at-15.20.47.png 615w, https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-22-at-15.20.47-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make a cup of tea or coffee, sit back and prepare to spend an hour or two looking back,&nbsp;in the company of a great photographer, at a visual portrait of a bygone black and white Scotland, modulated in \u2018Shades of Grey\u2019, the title of one of the iconic collections of his photos (and an infinitely preferable read to any other more recently published book which stole that title).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasedinburgh.com\/exhibitions\/5992\/\"><em>Recent exhibition<\/em><\/a><em> at Fine Art Society of Edinburgh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>First published by the author on his <a href=\"httpss:\/\/dannymurphyvso.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/13\/oscar-marzaroli\/\">site<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>see also how Peter Ross reunited the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentscotland.com\/tag\/oscar-marzaroli\/\">Castlemilk Lads<\/a>\u201d in one of Marzaroli\u2019s most famous photos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This must surely be one of the most extraordinary collections of photos of 20th century Scotland, and Glasgow in particular.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":7136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[80,178],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-art","tag-glasgow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18829,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/18829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}