Walther Benser

German photographer
Walther Benser
Portrait of Walter Benser in 1958
Sweden, January 1958
Born(1912-10-23)23 October 1912
Died21 April 2002(2002-04-21) (aged 89)
OccupationPhotographer
Poster for color slide presentation by Benser subtitled "Made with light and shadow"

Walther Benser (23 October 1912 – 21 April 2002) was a photographer, photo journalist and merchant from Germany. He traveled as a freelance photographer with a Leica camera, gave slide lecture tours and established the stock photo agency ZEFA.[1] In 1989 he gave a presentation "Sixty Years with the Leka (sic) at the Leica Historical Society of America meeting in Philadelphia.[2]

He was married to painter Ursula Benser (née Heuser), daughter of painter Werner Heuser.

Bibliography

  • Walther Benser (1957). Wir photographieren farbig. Europäischer Buchklub.

References

  1. ^ The British Journal of Photography. H. Greenwood. 1965. p. 301.
  2. ^ Leica Historical Society of America schedule

External links

  • Walther Benser on Good Reads
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