Walther Benser (23 October 1912 – 21 April 2002) was a photographer, photo journalist and merchant from

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. He traveled as a freelance photographer with a

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, gave slide lecture tours and established the stock photo agency ZEFA. In 1989 he gave a presentation "Sixty Years with the Leka (sic) at the Leica Historical Society of America meeting in

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.Leica Historical Society of America schedule
/ref> He was married to painter Ursula Benser (née Heuser), daughter of painter

Werner Heuser Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ...

Bibliography

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

References

External links

Walther Benser on Good Reads
20th-century German photographers 1912 births 2002 deaths Leica Camera {{Germany-photographer-stub