http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JimmyForsyth Posts tagged with 'JimmyForsyth' at MetaFilter. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:41 -0800 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/83266/Catching%2Da%2Dmoment%2Din%2Dtime <a href="http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/scotswood-road">His photographs</a> recorded life along the <a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/london/tra24127">Scotswood</a> <a href="http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/newcastleandgateshead/local/TRA39767.html">Road</a>, the working class district in the West End of Newcastle made <a href="http://www.blaydonrace.org/">famous in Geordie song</a>. <a href="http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/scotswood-road/detail">James (Jimmy) Forsyth</a> had come to make his home there having volunteered for war work as a fitter in one of the local factories, moving up to Newcastle from his native South Wales. In 1954, aware that <a href="http://www.timarchive2.freeuk.com/html/scotswood.htm">change was coming</a> and no longer working having lost an eye in an industrial accident, <a href="http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/scotswood-road/exhibits/jimmy-forsyth-and-friends-new-years-day-1960">Forsyth</a> began to document his community and surroundings. A self-taught photographer, Jimmy "picked up a cheap folding camera in one of the pawn shops. There wasn’t much to adjust, just as well, because I’ve never known what to do...I’m just an amateur...just capturing what I knew was going to disappear." Jimmy <a href="http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.com/2009/07/jimmy-forsyth-rip.html">died last Saturday</a>, aged 95. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.83266 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:41 -0800 England Forsyth JimmyForsyth Newcastle NewcastleUponTyne obituary photographer photography Scotswood socialhistory workingclass Abiezer