Walther Benser
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Walther Benser | |
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![]() Sweden, January 1958 | |
Born | 23 October 1912 |
Died | 21 April 2002 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Photographer |
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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
[edit]- Walther Benser (1957). Wir photographieren farbig. Europäischer Buchklub.
References
[edit]- ^ The British Journal of Photography. H. Greenwood. 1965. p. 301.
- ^ Leica Historical Society of America schedule