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Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten (1876–1959) was an American photographer. Bayard was one of the first women to make aerial photographs. ==Biography== Bayard was born in New Bern, North Carolina in 1876. She attended New Bern public schools and then studied at the State Normal and Industrial College from 1892-1894. After college, she briefly taught art at the Arkansas School for the Deaf and the Georgia School for the Deaf but in 1904, after a failed marriage to Charles Wootten, returned home to New Bern to support her two sons by painting flowers on china, calendars, greeting cards and fans. Having received basic instruction in photography from Ed Gerock, she set up her own photography studio in New Bern.〔"Through a Camera's Eye She Made North Carolina Live," Durham Morning Herald, 27 July 1952〕 At the New Bern County Fair in 1911, Bayard rode in a Wright Brothers' plane with her feet on the plane's metal struts and aimed the camera straight down between them, taking photographs of New Bern and the Neuse River.〔Leslie Takahashi, "UNC library features photos by pioneer," Raleigh News and Observer, 24 July 1987〕 She eventually flew many such aerial photographic missions as the chief of publicity for the North Carolina National Guard prior to World War I, for which she was issued her own special uniform.〔"Mrs. Mary Bayard Wootten Dies in New Bern in Her Eighty-Third Year, The Chapel Hill Weekly, 9 April 1959〕 Building on the success of her New Bern studio, Bayard opened a second studio in 1918 with her half-brother George Moulton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they specialized in portrait photography for the Yackety-Yak, the yearbook for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as official photography for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She also traveled extensively, photographing the countryside, families in their homes, and people at work. Many of her photographs were used as illustrations for books, including ''Backwoods America'' by Charles Morrow Wilson, 1934; ''Cabins in the Laurel'' by Muriel Sheppard, 1935; ''Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina'' by Archibald Henderson, 1939; and ''From My Highest Hill'' by Olive Tilford Dargan, 1941. Bayard took more than 600,000 photographs before she retired in 1948 because of failing eyesight. She died in New Bern in 1959. Over 90,000 photographs and negatives of her work are in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bayard Wootten」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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