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| Shades of Grey: Glasgow 1956-86 | |
| Author: | Oscar Marzaroli, William McIlvanney |
| Publisher: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Pages: | 223 |
| Isbn: | 9781851580477 |
Shades of Grey: Glasgow, 1956-86 is a book of photographs by Oscar Marzaroli with an essay by William McIlvanney.[1]
One of the photos from the book, a 1963 portrait of three young boys wearing their mother's high-heeled shoes playing in Kidson Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, was in 2005 made into a bronze statue installed in Queen Elizabeth Square.
February 2020
The Marzaroli family created the Gorbals community group that made saving Oscars unseen collection possible through Caledonian University.
[2] [3] The statue was unveiled in August 2008 by Nicola Sturgeon, then Scotland's Deputy First Minister.[4]