Innocent Eye

Product Description

Jimmy Forsyth (1913-2009) will always be associated on Tyneside with the west end of Newcastle & particularly with Scotswood Road. His remarkable photographs from the 1950s & 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 & determined to bring his work to a wider public. The result was the very successful Scotswood Road book & exhibition in 1986. Jimmy became an overnight sensation receiving in March 1987 the Halina Award for an outstanding body of work. Throughout the 1990s & 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 &

Includes:: a selection of his finest photographs. The book also makes available for the first time an autobiographical fragment written by Jimmy in 1989.