Elsbeth Juda, who has died aged 103, spent 45 years as a photographer, creating work intended often for commercial purposes but outstanding in the originality of its concept and design. After the death of her husband, Hans, in 1975, she became an artist, primarily working with still lifes and collages. Juda family friends, a number of whom became her subjects, included the sculptor Henry Moore (whom she photographed at work on his King and Queen sculpture for the Coronation in 1953) and the artist Graham Sutherland (whose painting of Winston Churchill, loathed by its subject, and later destroyed, was photographed by Juda, in a rare instance of the photographic image proving less ephemeral than the painted one).
Despite the breadth and inventiveness of her work, Juda had no major exhibition until she was 98. But in 2009 the gallery L'Équipement des Arts showed her images, and in 2012 the Victoria & Albert Museum exhibited 14 photographs first published in Ambassador, the magazine she had run for more than 20 years with Hans. She gave this archive to the V&A and other images to the British Museum.
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