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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.

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Born Constance Lorriane Gibbs, on February 11, 1913 in Ashland City, Tennessee, Bannister moved to New York to study photography, enrolling at the New York Institute for Photography. Her first assignment, in 1937, was shooting Palm Beach society photographs for the Associated Press. 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.

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Her baby pictures were published in books, calendars, and advertisements during the 1940s and 1950s. A line of "Bannister Baby" dolls were produced in the 1950s.

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

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