An Innocent Eye
Jimmy Forsyth, Tyneside Photographer
Published on 8. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-85795-214-8 (ISBN)
Description
Jimmy Forsyth (1913-2009) will always be associated on Tyneside with the west end of Newcastle, and particularly with Scotswood Road. His remarkable photographs from the 1950s and 1960s were first exhibited in January 1979, under the title Scotswood Road with a Box Camera. Newcastle's Side Gallery recognized in Jimmy's photographs a unique record of vanishing working-class culture and determined to bring his work to a wider public. The result was the very successful Scotswood Road book and exhibition in 1986. Jimmy became an overnight sensation, receiving in March 1987 the Halina Award for an outstanding body of work. Throughout the 1990s and into the present century he continued to take photographs of his favourite subjects until his death. An Innocent Eye describes Jimmy's life, considers how he is to be remembered, and includes a selection of his finest photographs. The book also makes available, for the first time, an autobiographical fragment written by Jimmy in 1989.
Jimmy Forsyth (1913-2009) will always be associated on Tyneside with the west end of Newcastle, and particularly with Scotswood Road. His remarkable photographs from the 1950s and 1960s were first exhibited in January 1979, under the title Scotswood Road with a Box Camera. Newcastle's Side Gallery recognized in Jimmy's photographs a unique record of vanishing working-class culture and determined to bring his work to a wider public. The result was the very successful Scotswood Road book and exhibition in 1986. Jimmy became an overnight sensation, receiving in March 1987 the Halina Award for an outstanding body of work. Throughout the 1990s and into the present century he continued to take photographs of his favourite subjects until his death. An Innocent Eye describes Jimmy's life, considers how he is to be remembered, and includes a selection of his finest photographs. The book also makes available, for the first time, an autobiographical fragment written by Jimmy in 1989.
Jimmy Forsyth (1913-2009) will always be associated on Tyneside with the west end of Newcastle, and particularly with Scotswood Road. His remarkable photographs from the 1950s and 1960s were first exhibited in January 1979, under the title Scotswood Road with a Box Camera. Newcastle's Side Gallery recognized in Jimmy's photographs a unique record of vanishing working-class culture and determined to bring his work to a wider public. The result was the very successful Scotswood Road book and exhibition in 1986. Jimmy became an overnight sensation, receiving in March 1987 the Halina Award for an outstanding body of work. Throughout the 1990s and into the present century he continued to take photographs of his favourite subjects until his death. An Innocent Eye describes Jimmy's life, considers how he is to be remembered, and includes a selection of his finest photographs. The book also makes available, for the first time, an autobiographical fragment written by Jimmy in 1989.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Newcastle Libraries & Information Service
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85795-214-8 (9781857952148)
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Anthony Flowers is co-author with Richard Caddel of Basil Bunting a Northern Life, 1997; and co-author with Derek Smith of Out of One Eye: the Photography of Jimmy Forsyth, 2002; his Jimmy Forsyth: Photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, 2009, was awarded a five star recommendation by Amateur Photographer magazine.
Anthony Flowers is co-author with Richard Caddel of Basil Bunting a Northern Life, 1997; and co-author with Derek Smith of Out of One Eye: the Photography of Jimmy Forsyth, 2002; his Jimmy Forsyth: Photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, 2009, was awarded a five star recommendation by Amateur Photographer magazine.
Anthony Flowers is co-author with Richard Caddel of Basil Bunting a Northern Life, 1997; and co-author with Derek Smith of Out of One Eye: the Photography of Jimmy Forsyth, 2002; his Jimmy Forsyth: Photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, 2009, was awarded a five star recommendation by Amateur Photographer magazine.