Walther Benser

Walther Benser
Sweden, January 1958
Born(1912-10-23)23 October 1912
Died21 April 2002(2002-04-21) (aged 89)
OccupationPhotographer

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. In 1989 he gave a presentation "Sixty Years with the Leka (sic) at the Leica Historical Society of America meeting in Philadelphia.

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