Present Past: Glasgow in Photographs
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- To coincide with the University of Glasgow event ‘Picturing Glasgow: Raymond Depardon in Conversation’, this short film presents Raymond Depardon’s photos alongside work by other figures in the history of photography in Glasgow: Thomas Annan, Oscar Marzaroli and contemporary photographer Chris Leslie, who reflects on this history and his own ongoing photographic practice.
Words by Chris Leslie and UofG Lecturer in French, Greg Kerr.
The film is narrated by Leslie, a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Documentary photographer and filmmaker, and author of the books and projects Disappearing Glasgow and A Balkan Journey (2020): www.chrisleslie.com/
'Picturing Glasgow: Raymond Depardon in Conversation' was hosted by UofG's School of Modern Languages and Cultures on 5 November 2020. You can access a transcription of the event here: www.gla.ac.uk/events/raymondd...
Photographs by Thomas Annan by permission of University of Glasgow Library, Archives & Special Collections.
Photographs by Oscar Marzaroli by permission of Glasgow Caledonian University Archive Centre. © Oscar Marzaroli Collection. With thanks to Street Level Photoworks for digital assets.
Photographs by Raymond Depardon © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos / Le Seuil.
This project has received the generous support of the University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund.
An exhibition of the photography of Oscar Marzaroli will be held at Street Level Photoworks until the 20th December 2020- Thursdays to Sundays, 12-5pm: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/...
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I travelled to Glasgow with a friend a few years go, to walk the West Highland Way, which starts there. On arrival at the main station, I asked the station master, where I could get the train to Milngavie, mis-pronouncing the name. He replied with a smile and advised me that in general, the local people pronounce it Mill-guy. It was such a dry, beautiful and polite correction and I smiled back. I had a wonderful two weeks and the beauty of the walk is just amazing and all the people we met, without exception were charming.
Glasgow is an enigma for lots of reasons..post industrial but blessed with outstanding parks and urban woodlands...but the people are its hidden treasure warm. humorous.and always keen to meet visitors for a Blether ..i agree the west highland Way is jaw dropping...Crainlaroch..and Rannoch moor..i remember as a child climbing the easy route up Ben Nevis...i had a transcendental experience..looking over this magical mystical landscape..there is a earth energy all around the Highlands that is unique and .spiritual..soo glad. you enjoyed your time up here in our wee hidden jewel.....Haste ye.back
Hahah I called it the same thing my brother told me it’s pronounced mull-guy the other day and I’ve lived in Glasgow my whole life
Young mull derry on top non stop YMD till a die
@@katherinewilliamson7670 Well said 👏👏👏
I love the staff at Glasgow international airport. They are the friendliest in the world.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I was born in the Salvation Army hostel on the great Western Rd and stayed in Govanhil before moving to what at the time was a luxury apartment in Toryglen. 9 of us in a 3 bedroom apartment. Me, my mum and dad 2 sisters and a brother together with an uncle and my grandad. We didn’t know we were poor, everyone was the same. Looking back, now 69, I loved it
I lived in Glasgow from 02 to 08... loved it. Its a city that knows what it is. Its rough. Its industrial. It's artistic. It's full to the brim with talent. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.
A phenomenal place.
A shit hole more like, try living here permanently.
Defo a hole
Haha brilliant i was thinking the exact same thing born and bread in Glasgow still living here now its this its that nah its just a shite hole
A lot of replies from people who dont seem to appreciate where they live. Glasgow has so much opportunities such as education, more employment. Appreciate where you are, maybe the area you are in is the issue, not the whole city.
honestly the most accurate description of Glasgow I have seen
My name is Thomas Kidd.I lived totally in the middle of the video !Aged 5 ,I moved from Camden street s old sand stone building,to the Cumberland Street high rise flats,
I lived there til 1983 ,got married ,moved away and returned in2000s to watch Cumberland Street be blown down! I later bought a house in what they called the new Gorbals,! Itt was never the same after this ! I'm not happy that time changes so quickly now! ,And miss how life was then!!!!!
My parents lived in Hospital Street in the Gorbals. In 1952 my mother went into the Royal Maternity, Rottenrow, to bring me into the world.
Some neighbours' keys unlocked each other's doors, and while my mother was in hospital, her neighbours accessed her tenement flat and redecorated it for her before she came home. My mother said she never ever had better neighbours than those in the Gorbals. 🙂
We moved to Glasgow in 1973 from Huddersfield. Glasgow beats every other city simply because of the beautiful and family loving people. Bridgeton will always be in my heart.
I'm a West ender from Kelvinside Glasgow who became a youth worker within my faith group The Salvation Army in Bridgeton. The locals took the Mic at my ***posh *** accent but I've never seen such kind, caring committed people in my life. I moved on to work in the armies homeless addiction services again in city centre / East end of Glasgow where I spent the years till I retired. I loved my job. Today I remain a member of the Salvation Army and choose while living at the other end of Glasgow I worship still in the East End at Parkhead Corps.
Thank you for this. I was born, raised and live in West London, but I lived in Glasgow from the early to mid 90's and made the best friendships and was made welcome. I remember the city with warm memories and still visit to this day and hopefully to the end of my days. I love the city.
Where in West London are you?
That was beautiful. I wish my late brother could have seen this. Our family left Glasgow in the early 60’s. I returned with my daughter in 2008 and it still felt like home even though I was a little girl when we left. Can’t pin down why it’s so special.
Back in the 60s when they cleared the whole area from Tradeston to Kiningpark, I grew up in it, living on the Paisley Rd, where now the Kingston Bridge stands. The first thing to say is that, the people wanted to knock all the buildings down. They believed there was a better life, than living up a close with an outside toilet and a trip to Baths once a week to get a bath. I was 21 before I ever stayed in a house with a bath. It was 1975.
I am not saying I wasn’t happy. It was a harsh life but there was still plenty of happiness. I had childhood full of wonders, play and adventures. At 8 climbing up the stairs, 3 stories, of dark strange close, could be terrifying as your imagination took hold. Climbing over broken walls and playing in rubbish bins, might seem to monochrome photo viewer as hell, but it was not. It was just home and at the end of day, you came home hungry, tired and happy, to what ever your Mum gave you for your tea, and in your bed you slept like log under your pile of eiderdowns and coats.
I'm 57 and was brought up in Glasgow. I don't live there now, but have some amazing pictures from the 70s that my mother captured on a simple camera. I returned there in the 90s and added my own pictures of a changing Glasgow Scheme..
Thank you for sharing this on your channel..
My mum has some stunning pictures of a hot air balloon race seen from our vantage point 20 up in queen elizabeth flats and of the flats being blown up
I was born in Glasgow, Stayed in Partick, I remember the old back courts, Moved to Livingston in 1972, To have your own bedroom was a Luxury, I’m back now, staying just outside Glasgow, but Partick is always in my heart, lived those old photos,
I’ve lived in England for 25 years but the first half of my life was Glasgow - born and bred.
My daughter now studies at Glasgow University and loves the city.
This video was at times haunting; often beautifully so.
I am a particular fan of the work of Oscar Marzaroli. His book ‘Shades of Grey’ perfectly captures Glasgow in the 50s-80s and showcases my home city as a place of contrasts ... sometimes quite stark contrasts.
Fantastic. I always find it haunting seeing pictures such as these.
Really enjoyed watching this. Wasn't expecting the narration but it turned out to be a wonderful surprise. Thank you for creating this collection
Yeh me too my friend. Have a blessed day
I loved my childhood in Glasgow never easy always exiting running free some would have said kids in the 70s were neglected but kids these days are over protected and modern parents are scared if our kids leave the house the media mould us into what we are the more restrictions that are put in place to make our life’s safer the more anxious and fearful we become I don’t have an answer but I see it happening more and more
Hi Dave , couldn't agree more! Life just isn't the the same any more! We made our own fun and future then! Nowadays they all want it done for them! Although sometimes hard,
Our times were much different and better!!!!!
Totally with you on those observations.
Project FEAR DAVD ICKE It is assault criminal there more to it.I wish everyone good health we must look more carefully for whom we vote for
Always thot this way
I think you meant ‘ exciting’ not exiting such as what they done as they headed to the New Towns like Cumbernauld and Livingston. It’s not pretty and certainly not nostalgic. It was brutal.
Looking at 1800s photos of the Glasgow architecture is just absolutely astounding. It’s almost hard to believe men from those times could built such glory. My ancestors trace back to Scotland and it’s where I’ve always wanted to go most. Never been out of America.
As a photographer of historic architecture, I’d be in heaven in Glasgow. Cool video. Cheers
Men of those times built glory all over the world. When you do something to the glory of God you tend to make a good job of it.
Youl like Edinburgh tae
@@adambritain5774 Yes. Very few people today can fathom someone’s thought process and motivation from those times. The work ethic, the dedication, the pride. Fascinates me to no end.
When men were men, and women were glad of it, jestin. Stay free. R = Oldish Springburn man (now 70 Earth years ...).
🍻 😎 🌠
I was a small child from London visiting my mother’s mother in the 1950s , who lived throughout her entire life in the tenements in the gorbles of Glasgow . The experience of that summer has stayed with me ever since.
You should seek a good therapist, hopefully you will recover.
I was born at home in springburn in 1957 moved to ruchazie in 1962 and then to cumbernauld in 1971. I still consider myself as Glaswegian. So it saddens me to know that the house i was born in the house i moved to, the two primary schools and the secondary school i attended, no longer exist. But at least photographs of them and my memories of them still exist.
strange I was born in Bedley street in Sprinburn 1959...movevd to Torbrex in Cumbernauld in 63...loved it all...my childhood and teenage years were magical lovely neighbours..tough at times..but never felt soo alive
The triangle shaped park in front of the bus depot.
Bottom of Mary Hill.
@@katherinewilliamson7670 I was born at home in petershill road diagonally opposite the school that had a side entrance to bedlay st then moved to ruchazie in 1962 then cumbernauld in 1971 . If you went to cumbernauld high you may have known my 2 best pals who were in your year.
@@thomassutherland377 I have many freinds that went to Cumbie high....i went to Our Ladies High..in Seafar....small world I know the school with gate onto Bedley street...my family were originally from Maryhill...then Springburn..but we moved to Cumbernauld..with houses with flat roofs...nae.radiators...spent the winters with coats on the beds lol...ala..Billy Connolly sketch...have to say loved Cumbernauld..whete did u stay Carbrain ?
@@katherinewilliamson7670 I stayed in kilbowie road. I live in Seafar now after living in England for a few years
I photographed Glasgow over one glorious summer weekend in 2018. Extremely photogenic. Loved the place. I am in New Zealand. Yeah, bits of G. To be fair. My ancestors btw sailed out the Clyde in 1867. Of course I photographed the glorious deserted docklands. I will exhibit them next year. I am slow!
I enjoyed this immensely. Thanks.
Will you be putting them on YT? I would love to see them.
I'd be very interested in seeing how photography... Where do you intend to exhibit them? I remember those shipyards from visiting my aunties and uncles as many lived overshadowed by John browns yard etc. I remember the hull of the QE2 looming over us at the back of my aunties home at the back of the yard where my uncle worked and being shown around the unfinished ship not long before it was launched into the river Clyde - families of the workers were allowed to be shown around before she was due to be floated, and sent to the finishing dock.
All have been swept away, the tenements, John browns and much of Clydebank too... All that remains is the old Caledonian Railway station that is now a house...
Respect the past, live in the present and quietly look at and plan for the future. Stunning images and lovely story. Makes me sad hey happy. I’m Romanian. Moved to Glasgow 2 years ago. Loving it. People do make Glasgow still and I hope they will continue to do so.
More of this please. Brilliant
As an American Glasgow Uni alum, this made me miss the city so much man. Haven’t been back since I graduated but hoping I can go in 2021.
This is stunning - my son is at University of Glasgow and has adopted Glasgow as his forever home having been there a few years now - he also takes stunning pictures of the city with an impressive set of eyes - thank you for these
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Thank you for posting this. I've never been to Glasgow but found this fascinating. The photos are well chosen and I've never heard of Marzaroli and I was very pleased to be introduced to his work. The commentary is passionate and intelligent and I love Chris Leslie's photos. One of the best photography videos I have seen for a long time. Best wishes from Hull.
Something I care about deeply, and building my body of work over the last two decades too. Great video and soul felt photos of our City of Glasgow.
I remember you from Flickr! I loved your photos. Greetings from Ireland, Anna x
@@annamaria1929 Wow, Anna the Flickr days, that takes me back. I hope you are well. I am still shooting and can be found on Instagram zenowatson
Melancholic and beautiful.
In addition, I remember my late mother telling me a story. Very glamorous, she had been dancing at one of
the many dancehalls in the late 1950’s, and she and a boyfriend were invited to a party in the Gorbals. This
was when there was still tenements, the traditional Gorbals. She was shocked to arrive at the flat to see
a coal fire burning, a flat immaculate and highly polished brasses on the fireplace. It was so welcoming.
I love the image at 3:13, 3 wee boys wearing their mammys high heels!! Brilliant 🙂
by oscar mazzarolli its called the glasgow boys i was photographed by him standing with my granda watching the tenement buildings being bulldozed in the gorbals 60 years ago linda wilson
A wonderful candid collection, thank you. Greetings from an ex pat in Ireland 🇮🇪, Anna x
Loved this - words and visuals about a wonderful city and it’s flaws and real beauty ❤️
I love vids like these and I'm glad someone did this for posterity. I grew up in Glesga but moved doon south in 1994 - absence make the heart grow fonder.
Work of art mate .. Well done.
That was put together brilliantly.
Really enjoyed that and thanks for posting.
A love my city 🥺 This was... beautiful Chris
I started working life in C&As in Trongate in 1972, the only recruit ever to ask for Glasgow. A brilliant city, and many happy memories outside work. "Glasgow's Miles Better" - the best ever city slogan, and still true today.
Beautifully narrated and the pictures speak volumes.
Stunning work
As a child I remember areas of Glasgow in the 1970’s that were ruined. Waste ground, raised buildings,
rubble, litter. Half derelict tenements, rooms opened to the air. Scary and sad. I wish we could go back
and do what we do today. Sandblast the tenements, new windows, new plumbing. Clean them up, and keep
communities together. But knocked down, these areas are gone forever.
As someone who lived in Glasgow during the 1800’s I can honestly say life was harder, but somehow everyone seemed happier. Maybe it’s just my memory.
I’m guessing you didn’t live in Glasgow in the 1800’s?..
Your memory is confused with the century. Funny though.
Happy 230th birthday Chris. 😂
do you mean eighties
Having moved out of Glasgow several years ago i reminisce about my life there. I grew up in the Old Gorbals where decent folk were harassed on a daily basis in those giant tenement blocks. Moving to Maryhill seemed like an escape but in reality it was the same. But it is still home, regardless of the poverty and the crime and the violence. It is a city where humility and respect has been earned. A city where life is brimming and hardship will forever be endured. I miss the people, the lifestyle, the landscape. I miss my home.
Brilliant, just Brilliant.
Just brilliant Glasgow .
Great watch from someone who moved here 3 years ago.
Glasgow has gone through cycle after cycle of demolition of "slums" only to replace them with the next generations slums. Other cities conserve, protect and repair. Glasgow shatters its own communities and builds disruptive dual carriageways and roads that disconnect communities from their own historical city. Now ironically, the authorities are paying attention to the quality of housing but they are trying to repair the super-slums that they constructed on the outskirts of the city in the 1960's, ie "the scheme's". Time will tell but the quality of much of the city has been destroyed by those who were supposed to care for it. Selling cheap houses in urban jungles may be the way to revive the city but I doubt it.
William Bolton : All my family and relatives lived in the Tenements, I was born in Toonhied, 1948, ran away in 1966, some family moved to Drumchapel, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride, Rutherglen, I left with a Ten Bob Note...
You can take the boy out of the slums, but you have to take the slums out of the boy... Take a look at The Drum and East Kilbride today... shiteholes.
Very good and interesting video - thanks. Sets the scene really well for today's interview with Depardon.
Best video I've seen on here for ages. Well put together.
Powerful piece this, really enjoyed it. I grew up in Glasgow in the 80s and early 90s and have fond memories, i miss it. Westminster's conservative party decimated Glasgow and to a greater extent Scotland. Scotlands wealth built Canary Wharf and the London skyline we know today, imagine what it could have done for ourselves. Scotland is the only oil rich nation in the world having to use food banks. Didnt mean to get all political but some of those images hit hard.
American here to tell you Scotland is DEFINITELY not the only oil rich nation with people having to use food banks. It's a crying shame.
Beautiful, thank you!
Always a pleasure to see shots of Glasgow from bygone days, Chris does a good job narrating folk like Chris and Oscar Mazzarolli gave me the idea to take shots of Glasgow as it was when I started in late 1980s and I am still taking shots, I am well out of their league but take what I see. For the past few years I have been taking whats coming down and whats going up , the changing face of Glasgow, some folk dont like it but its happening
Brilliant piece of historical documentary and some wonderful photographic work from Chris Leslie.
wonderful video
Can’t wait to be in this beautiful city for a whole year as a student. Thank you for sharing this history. I can’t wait to learn so much.
The stark contrasts are just amazing.
These photos are fantastic.I can stilll smell the ditinct "Glega air".a mixture of smog,decaying tenements and whisky being ditilled.I attended Glasgow School of Art in Renfrew Street and although I was born and brought up in Dumbarton during the 50s,60s70s I am proud to have called Glasgow my home..in the words of Billy Connolly ."Glasgow gave me more than it ever took away,and prepared me for life on the road".....
Beautifully put together and narrated. Thank you.
Absolutely lovely, thank you.
Excellent. Thank you for a great narration and wonderful photos.
This is, quite simply, superb. Well done.
Fantastic photographs and great video presentation. Thank you.
Reinforces the importance of recording how people live in our city. Have we made progress? That is another film methinks.
As rhetorical as that may be the answer is definitely not.
Beautiful!
This is so well done. This focuses on the Gorbals/ center of the city. My life in Glasgow was mostly in the west end, life on Buchanan st, Sauchiehall st, getting out to other parts of the city. Proud to be from Glasgow. from a Scot now living in North Carolina.
Good work
Excellent video! We (My parents, sister & I) lived in the old Gorbals, at the top floor of our old blackened tenement, until December 1963. The following year it was demolished. I was heartbroken then, & am still pissed off even now! Ok, I was only 6, but I have very clear memories of the place. I loved it. We moved to Pollok, a fairly new suburb with a better environment for kids to play. I moved to Australia in the 1980s, but have never lost my love for the old Gorbals!
some fantastic photos ,thank you
This vid is a true gem, not often you get to see the working class view of the city these days. I grew up in the Shaws flats in the early 90s to 00s and while it was a deprived area I loved it and miss them dearly.
Beautiful portrait of a beautiful city!
Absolutely First Class. Thank you 😊
Have to say, I consider that it was an absolute act of desecration that the University of Glasgow demolished the home of architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh ; Southpark Avenue, number 78. I lived in Southpark Avenue as a student.
Agreed. Very sad to read about this :-(
Wonderfully put together. Cheers.
Just shared it on Facebook youtube photography page.
Great photos, and narrative, thank you.
So touching...
Wonderful , very moving
This is fantastic. Wish I could travel back in time maybe for day.
Fab video
Good memories thanks
Enjoyed that, thank you x
Loved this. Thanks.
That was lovely . thank you
Fascinating clip...
fantastic look at Glasgow and documentary photography, thanks for this upload
Utterly captivating, well done.
Fantastic video. Many thanks for sharing.
Thank you.
Well done
I love this, thank you ✨
What a lovely video.
Great work!
This is great
This is a great short - amazing photographs too.
These pictures are so memorable and heartbreaking to see the way they had to live in god bless them all
My pal and I used to wait outside the gates of that very shipyard on the day the men would get their pay pokes ( packets to non Glaswegians). We were only about 7 and the men would quite often drop half pennies . Between us both we could get enough for some sweeties. I remember the Govan fair too. Beautiful big cart horses striking sparks on the cobbles as they passed in the procession. It wasn’t a bad childhood at all.
This was excellent
Brilliant!!
Great to see these photos👍
Beautiful.. I wonder who will take the next set of photos and the stories and lives that have lived up until then
Beautiful, stark and fascinating feature. Fantastic.
Really interesting and whimsical photography! Well done!
Thoughtful upload.
Well done!
5.42 - That is where i grew up in the 70s. It is the pitch beside the red road flats of Petershill Road. On the other side is the railway that separates Red Road from Germiston.