Background
James Jarché was born on September 8. 1890 in London, United Kingdom. His father was an immigrant French photographer.
1934
Gracie Fields and James Jarché photographing each other.
1938
James Jarché with his Leica.
James Jarché was born on September 8. 1890 in London, United Kingdom. His father was an immigrant French photographer.
After an undistinguished school life (James Jarché was expelled from St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School) he was world amateur wrestling middleweight champion in 1909.
James Jarché worked for Argent Archer, a magazine picture agency, in 1907, and later worked for Warhurst, the "pioneer of Fleet Street photography." He was connected with Odhams Press for many years and was frequently published in Illustrated London News. James Jarché left Odhams in 1953 for Associated Press, and later worked six years on the Daily Mail before retiring.
James Jarché photographed events that serve well as an illustrative commentary on English life and shot portraits of such notables as George Bernard Shaw, Sir Alexander Fleming and Albert Einstein. In a career that spanned nearly half a century he contributed notably to the technical advance and physical expansion of illustrative technique as applied to newspapers and magazines.
Tasked with photographing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in black and white for Odhams Press, James Jarché reportedly also took colour photographs, which he sold independently.
James Jarché died on August 6, 1965 in London, United Kingdom.
Albert Einstein
1944Limbs and the Law
1924Night Scene in Govan
1931Bieriot after crossing the Channel
1910Winston Churchill at the Sidney Street Siege
1911Men exercising on a beach
1933Asleep on the deck of the SS Normandie
1935Binnie Hale and Roger Treville watch their co-stars in "Magyar Melody"
1939Workers pictured streaming out of the Queen Mary liner
Filming the 1934-35 cup final
1935Little boy carrying a lamb
1932Cinema audience pictured using the Ilford infra-red process
1932£1,000,000 furnace for car making
1934Woman feeds deer from a motorbike sidecar at Richmond Park
1933National Hunger March, 23 February 1934
1934George Bernard Shaw
1930The Royal Naval School of Photography
1938James Jarché married Elsie Gladys, née Jezzard (1893/4-1971), of Epping, Essex on 18 August 1914. They lived with her parents, who ran the White Lion pub in that town.