{{Short description|New Zealand photographer}}{{Infobox artist | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|04|20|1870}} | birth_date = 1870 | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | style = Photography }} '''Annie Elizabeth Davis''' (1870–1943) was a New Zealand photographer.
== Biography == Annie Elizabeth Davis was born in 1870.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Lissa |title=Annie Davis |url=https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/persons/12812/annie-davis |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery |language=en}}</ref> Davis worked in a photography studio run by Alfred Martin as a mounter and finisher.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=11 December 1899 |title=Untitled |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18991211.2.10 |work=Taranaki Herald |pages=2 |volume=XLVIII |issue=11696}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=30 November 1899 |title=FINAL PARTITION OF THE WORLD. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH18991130.2.16 |work=Wanganui Herald |pages=2 |volume=XXXIII |issue=9912}}</ref> She also worked for Wrigglesworth and Binns photography studio of Wellington.<ref name=":0" />
In 1899, Davis and Emily Collis opened their own photography studio, The Ridgway Studio, in Whanganui.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=22 June 1900 |title=Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19000622.2.32.3 |work=Wanganui Chronicle |pages=2 |issue=15000}}</ref> They displayed their photographs in the front of the studio, and were particularly well known for their portraits of children.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-19 |title=New discoveries from the archive |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/sarjeant-new-discoveries-from-the-edith-collier-trust-archive/4J2LKMVLXKRFBIVYULIGTL2MOY/?c_id=1503426&objectid=12326071 |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 April 1900 |title=Untitled |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19000421.2.20 |work=Wanganui Herald |pages=2 |volume=XXXIV |issue=10017}}</ref> They sold the studio in 1901 shortly before Collis got married.<ref name=":0" /> Following this, Davis moved to Auckland.<ref name=":0" />
Several of Davis' photographs of Edith Collier are part of the collection of the Sarjeant Gallery, including images of Collier as a child with Ethel, Davis' sister.<ref name=":0" /> In 1911 and 1912, several of her photographs were published in ''Auckland Weekly News''.<ref name=":0" /> There is also a set of archive files for Davis at the Te Aka Matua Research Library, Te Papa Tongarewa.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Davis, Annie |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/3871/annie-davis |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=findnzartists.org.nz}}</ref>
Davis died on 20 April 1943 in Auckland, New Zealand.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
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== External links == * [https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/persons/12812/annie-davis Portraits of Edith Collier by Annie Davis] * [https://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/2014/11/collis-and-davis.html Blog post on Annie Davis and Emily Collis] {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Annie Elizabeth}} Category:1870 births Category:1943 deaths Category:New Zealand women photographers