Walther Benser

{{Short description|German photographer}}

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| name = Walther Benser

| image = Walther Benser Leica-Vortrag Schweden Jan 1958.jpg

| alt = Portrait of Walter Benser in 1958

| caption = Sweden, January 1958

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|04|21|1912|10|23|df=y}}

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| occupation = Photographer

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File:Walther Benser, Poster 42x59cm, 1965.jpg

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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHsqAAAAMAAJ|title=The British Journal of Photography|date=1965|publisher=H. Greenwood|pages=301|language=en}} In 1989 he gave a presentation "Sixty Years with the Leka (sic) at the Leica Historical Society of America meeting in Philadelphia.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walther_Benser,_Leica_Historical_Society_of_America,_Schedule_of_Events,_21st_Annual_Meeting,_Philadelphia,_PA,_October_13-15,_1989.jpg Leica Historical Society of America schedule]

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