Walther Benser
Appearance
(Redirected from ZEFA)
Walther Benser | |
|---|---|
Sweden, January 1958 | |
| Born | 23 October 1912 |
| Died | 21 April 2002 (aged 89) |
| Occupation | Photographer |

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 Leica" 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