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'''James Allan Johnstone Cash''', F.R.P.S, F.I.B.P, was born in 1902 in [[Bucklow Rural District|Bucklow]], Cheshire and died in 1974.<ref name=":1" />
'''James Allan Johnstone Cash''', F.R.P.S, F.I.B.P, was born in 1902 in [[Bucklow Rural District|Bucklow]], Cheshire and died in 1974.<ref name=":1" />


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James Allan Johnstone Cash, F.R.P.S, F.I.B.P, was born in 1902 in Bucklow, Cheshire and died in 1974.[1]

Biography

Cash was a radio engineer before becoming a photographer and writer.[2] Having had a love for travelling since he was young, at 23 years old he moved to Canada to work for the Northern Electric Company's broadcasting station.[1] Cash travelled throughout the 1930s, taking photographs with his Leica camera.[1] He married Betty, another photographer and traveller, in 1939 and together they owned a gallery in Camden Town which specialised in travel photographs.[1]

Photography

Cash's photographic endeavours lead him to found the Hampstead Photographic Society in 1937 and from 1944 to 1945 was its president.[1] He then served as a photographer in the army during World War II.[2] In the 1960s he became a founding member of the British Guild of Travel Writers along with Anthony F. Kersting who he collaborated with on a book of photographs.[3]

An exhibition of his photographs 'Camera Globe Trotter' toured the UK in 1975-6, starting at the Society House of the Royal Photographic Society, and visiting Woburn Abbey and The Grand Hotel, Brighton.[4]

Honours

Other information

Photographs contributed by James Allan Cash to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.[6]

Bibliography

  • Photography with a Leica, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1955.
  • African Voyage, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1955.
  • The English Countryside in Colour. A collection of colour photographs by J. A. Cash and A. F. Kersting. London: B. T. Batsford, 1957.
  • Camera Globetrotter, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1973.
  • History, People and Places in the Cotswolds, J. A. Cash, Bourne End; Spurbooks, 1974.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "J. Allan Cash (1902 - 1974)". Burgh House.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "J Allan Cash CAMERA GLOBETROTTER First Edition". books-and-records.com. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  3. ^ "Majestic characters and the birth of the Guild". BGTW. 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  4. ^ "RPS Reviews". The Photographic Journal of the Royal Society of Photographers. 116: 315. 1976.
  5. ^ "Announcements". The Photographic Journal of the Royal Photographic Society. 86: 26. 1946.
  6. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-01-28.