James Allan Johnstone Cash, F.R.P.S, F.I.B.P, was born in 1902 in Bucklow, Cheshire and died in 1974.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Photography
- 2.1 Following The Tyne: Mouth to Watersmeet. An original article from the Geographical Magazine, 1948.
- 2.2 Living On My Camera - Ten Years Of Free-Lancing
- 2.3 Snowfields of The Dolomites. An original article from the Geographical Magazine, 1960.
- 2.4 Photography with a Leica
- 2.5 The River Wye
- 2.6 How to Make Your Own Enlargements
- 2.7 The Pageant of London in Colour
- 2.8 The English Countryside in Colour
- 2.9 The English Countryside in Colour / a Collection of ... Photographs by J. Allan Cash and A. F. Kersting. with an Introductory Text and Notes on the Illustrations by G. W. Stonier
- 2.10 Photography on A Small Income
Biography
Cash was a radio engineer before becoming a photographer and writer. Having had a adore for travelling before he was young, at 23 years antiquated he moved to Canada to work for the Northern Electric Company’s broadcasting station. Cash travelled throughout the 1930s, taking photographs bearing in mind his Leica camera. He married Betty, another photographer and traveller, in 1939 and together they owned a gallery in Camden Town which specialised in travel photographs.
Photography
Cash’s photographic endeavours gain him to found the Hampstead Photographic Society in 1937 and from 1944 to 1945 was its president. He later served as a photographer in the army during World War II. 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 folder of photographs.
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.
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