Bannister in self-portrait, circa 1942, with a Graflex camera.
Born
February 11, 1913
Ashland City, Tennessee, U.S.
Died
August 17, 2005(2005-08-17) (aged 92)
Laurel Hollow, New York City
Known for
photography
Constance Bannister (1913–2005) was an American photographer. She was an avid baby photographer and is reported to have taken more than 100,000 shots of babies.
Born Constance Lorraine Gibbs, on February 11, 1913, in Ashland City, Tennessee, to Arthur Thomas Gibbs and Bessie Serena Jackson, Bannister moved to New York to study photography, studying first at the New York School of Applied Design and the School of Modern Photography[1] then enrolling at the New York Institute for Photography.[2] Her first assignment, in 1937, was shooting Palm Beach society photographs for the Associated Press.[3] 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.[4]
Her baby pictures were published in books, calendars, and advertisements during the 1940s and 1950s.[5] A line of "Bannister Baby" dolls were produced in the 1950s.[6] Beginning in 1946, she wrote a comic strip, "Baby Banters," syndicated twice weekly to approximately 50 newspapers.[1]
Bannister was married three times, first in 1936 to Stephen A. Bannister (div. 1938); later to Air Force Captain Charles G. Fredericks[1] and lastly to Joseph Hatcher (m. 1956).[7] Bannister died on August 17, 2005, in Laurel Hollow in Nassau County, New York, where she lived.[3]
^ abcOnofrio, Jan (January 1, 2000). Tennessee Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-403-09700-5.
^"Photographer's Daughter Inherits 100,000 Baby Pictures". Fox News Channel. March 16, 2017. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017.
^ abClaudia Gryvats Copquin (May 11, 2008). "A Career Born of Babies". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
^Bannister, Lynda. "About Constance". Constance Bannister – Out of the Darkroom. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
^"Constance Bannister Dies at 92; Photographed 100,000 Babies". The New York Times. Associated Press. August 20, 2005. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
^"Doll leads to 1940s female photographers". Auction Finds. March 4, 2013. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017.
^Gold, Doris B (1972). "Ex-Photographer of Young Is Focusing on New Career". The New York Times. p. 76. ISSN 0362-4331.
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