James Jarché
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Born | Press photographer | 8 September 1890
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James Jarché (8 September 1890[1] – 6 August 1965[1]) was a Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and the then-unidentified Wallis Simpson[2] and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney Street.
Early life
Jarché was born in Mile End, London, to Jewish parents Arnold Jarché (or Jarchy; died 1901) and Amelie (née Solomon). His father had a photographic business near Tower Bridge in London,[2] but died when Jimmy was ten, leaving his wife and Jimmy to run the business.[2] After an undistinguished school life (he was expelled from St Olave's Grammar School),[1] he was world amateur wrestling middleweight champion in 1909.[1]
In World War I, he stationed the rank of company sergeant-major with the 1st army corps school for physical training and bayonet training, serving in France.
He married Elsie Gladys Jezzard (1893–1971), of Epping, Essex on 18 August 1914. They lived with her parents, who ran the White Lion pub in that town.[1]
Career
He worked as a photographer for the
He spent
Tasked with photographing the coronation of
Legacy
His wartime negatives are at the Imperial War Museum,[1] his Daily Herald glass negatives are at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford,[1] and some of his work is in the National Portrait Gallery.[3] More of his negatives are in the Getty Images archive.[2]
Perhaps his best remembered photograph shows the rear view of some small naked boys running from a policeman who had caught them swimming in The Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. A story he liked to tell concerned a visit he made to Chequers to photograph Winston Churchill. He was given a very large drink and taken for a walk in the garden. Walking just behind Churchill he found the drink too much so he tipped it into a pond they were passing. Unfortunately this made an audible splash. Without turning Churchill called out: 'Pour Mr Jarché another drink'.
Two of his grandchildren (his daughter was their mother[2]) are the brothers, actor David Suchet and newsreader John Suchet. In his old age, he lived with his daughter and her sons, John, David and Peter.[2] In March 2012 David presented a one-hour television documentary, in which John also appeared, about his grandfather, as part of the ITV series 'Perspectives'.[2]
Bibliography
- —— (1934). People I Have Shot.
Further reading
- S.D.Jouhar, ‘Photographic Personalities: James Jarché’, The Amateur Photographer, 17 December 1952, p.635
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48447. Retrieved 26 November 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "People I have Shot". Perspectives. Series 2. Episode 1. 25 March 2012. ITV.
- ^ "James Jarché". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 26 November 2011.