Scotswood Road
Will be published approx. on 16. October 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-85224-014-1 (ISBN)
Description
For thirty years Jimmy Forsyth travelled down Newcastle's Scotswood Road, battered camera in hand. A chronicle of post-war Britain, a mirror of human life, Jimmy's journey along that road has been described as a work of near genius. His book begins in the early fifties. It is one of the most important records of working-class society that anyone has produced. He had no training at all in photography or art. He started out using a Coronet Camera Company 127 box camera, switching later to a Rolleiflex bought secondhand for the relatively immense sum of GBP20.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 200 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-014-1 (9781852240141)
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Born in Barry, South Wales, in 1913, Jimmy Forsyth went to sea after leaving school at 14. He arrived in Newcastle in 1943 to work as a fitter. At 30 he lost the sight of one eye in an industrial accident, and was not to work again. When Scotswood Road was demolised in the sixties, Jimmy was rehoused in a tower block overlooking his old territory. He was still taking pictures every day at the age of 73 when this book was published and launched at an exhibition at Newcastle's Side Gallery with a film about his life and work shown on Tyne Tees Television at the same time. A further book, Jimmy Forsyth: Photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, edited by Anthony Flowers, was published by Tyne Bridge Publishing in 2009, followed by An Innocent Eye: Jimmy Forsyth Tyneside Photographer, also edited by Anthony Flowers, in 2013. He died in 2009 at the age of 95.