Constance Bannister

Bannister in self-portrait, circa 1942, with a Graflex camera.

Constance Bannister (1913 – 2005) was an American photographer. She was an avid baby photographer and claimed to have taken more than 100,000 shots of babies.

Born Constance Lorriane Gibbs, on February 11, 1913 in Ashland City, Tennessee, Bannister moved to New York to study photography. Her first assignment, in 1937, was shooting Palm Beach society photographs for the Associated Press. [1] She opened a studio in New York and worked for the Chicago Tribune, shooting Broadway plays headed to Chicago. She also photographed the New York City Ballet and the Ice Capades. Her work was featured in many popular magazines in the 1940s and 1950s.[2]

Her baby pictures were published in books, calendars, and advertisements during the 1940s and 1950s.[3]

Bannister died on August 17, 2005, in Laurel Hollow (Nassau County), New York.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Claudia Gryvats Copquin (11 May 2008). "A Career Born of Babies". New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Bannister, Lynda. "About Constance". Constance Bannister - Out of the Darkroom. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Constance Bannister Dies at 92; Photographed 100,000 Babies". New York Times. Associated Press. 20 August 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
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