Background
Victor Wilhelm Rasmussen was born on March 23, 1909, in Denmark.
Victor Wilhelm Rasmussen was born on March 23, 1909, in Denmark.
A self-taught photographer, Victor Rasmussen began his professional career in March 1950 and was the first TV cameraman on Danish television (June 15, 1952). He later became a press photographer at Denmark radio and TV, working there until his death. Victor Rasmussen grew from an amateur genre picture taker in the early 1940s to a serious artistic photographer in the late 1950s. He described his photographs as ''a kind of visual music.''