{"id":3566,"date":"2014-05-28T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:42:11","slug":"free-historic-photography-of-laramie-open-house-ludwig-photography-may-31-10-a-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Free Historic Photography of Laramie Open House @Ludwig Photography May 31 10 A-Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We greatly appreciate Ludwig Photography for hosting an open house featuring over a century of their family’s photography of the Laramie and Southeast Wyoming area. This free event runs from 10 AM – noon on Saturday, May 31 and is a neat opportunity to experience the history of Laramie up close.<\/p>\n

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visit our website to purchase tickets<\/a><\/h3>\n

The open house is one of many events during the Food + Photo Festival in Laramie May 30 & 31. Other events include:<\/h3>\n

Friday, May 30 — Free Open House, Alice Hardie Stevens Center: \u00a0View photography submitted in the photo competition 7-10 PM<\/h3>\n

Saturday, May 31 — Free Open House, Historic Laramie Photography — Ludwig Photography: \u00a010 AM – Noon<\/h3>\n

Saturday, May 31 — Learn How Altitude Makes a Great Local Beer + Beer Tasting — Altitude Chophouse & Brewery: \u00a02-3 PM \u00a0$15\/ticket<\/h3>\n

Saturday, May 31 — Wine Tasting — Laramie Country Club: \u00a07-10 PM $30\/ticket<\/h3>\n

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We were lucky to feature Ludwig’s story in our Sprinter 2014 issue of\u00a0Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine.<\/em> Below are some excerpts from the article showcasing the family’s story…<\/p>\n

On a September day in 1905, photographer Henning Svenson stepped off the train in Laramie. Inspired by the West and looking for adventure, Svenson arrived in the frontier town with one dollar in his pocket and a quest to open a photography studio. The opportunities Wyoming offers to reinvent one\u2019s self are not available elsewhere; in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> centuries, that was even more the case than it is today. Svenson\u2019s road to Laramie was not direct, however. Born in Kiel, Germany on July 16, 1879, Svenson served as a photographic apprentice to Ferdinand Urbahns from 1895-98. This was followed by work in retouching in Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris. Svenson attended the World\u2019s Fair in Paris, where he met Amy DuPont, who encouraged him to come to work in her New York City studio. In 1902, Svenson immigrated to the United States, and created portraits of DuPont\u2019s New York clientele before joining his brother in Iowa. The two brothers opened a photography studio, with Henning later setting out to open a branch out west. He traveled first to Denver, but found the city didn\u2019t suit him; he boarded a train north, and the rest is history \u2013 well-photographed history, to be exact.<\/em><\/p>\n

Svenson established a solid clientele and a reputation as the premier photography studio in the region. Henning and Marie\u2019s family also grew to include three daughters, Helen, Aneleas and Lottie. The Chauncey Root Building burnt to the ground (with Svenson injured in the blaze) in 1910 due to a boiler explosion. The studio relocated to 314 South Second Street, above a pool hall, until Svenson built his permanent location on the corner of Third Street & Ivinson (where the studio sits today).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy great-grandfather was unique in that he empowered his daughters to be a part of the family business,\u201d Brande, who is the current owner of the family business, says. All three of Svenson\u2019s daughters attended the University of Wyoming and worked in the studio. The older sisters became film developers; Lottie\u2019s talent was capturing images alongside her father. Svenson Photography created tens of thousands of regional images annually, many used for postcards, father and daughter equally responsible for the work. Sadly, Henning Svenson died in 1932 at the age of 52 from lung complications, his daughters assuming the role of studio ownership and operations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eldest daughter Helen was the first to assume ownership of the studio. Lottie Svenson married Walter \u201cDoc\u201d Ludwig, and in 1943 the couple purchased the studio from Helen, renaming it Ludwig Photo Enterprises. Lottie played an equal and important role in the studio alongside her husband. \u201cMy grandmother was a progressive woman,\u201d Brande says with a smile. \u201cShe raced motorcycles, wore pants, and even broke horses when she was a kid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Walter and Lottie Ludwig had one daughter, Carol, who had a sense of adventure like her mother and grandfather before her. In the 1940s, the family acquired a ranch on the Wyoming\/Colorado border, and Carol embraced a love of ranching life and the West. She served as Miss Laramie Jubilee Days 1961 and first runner-up to Miss Rodeo Wyoming. She was one of the first women to climb Devils Tower, competed in slalom and was a ski instructor at Winter Park, using folk singing to finance her skiing obsession.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carol married Bill Loyer, Ludwig Photo Enterprises\u2019s Kodak Eastman representative at the time. The two honeymooned through Europe for a month before settling in New Jersey. However, the love of Wyoming called them home, and the two opened a studio branch in Cheyenne, working alongside Carol\u2019s parents in the Laramie branch. The couple grew the business into a regional hub for both portrait photography and film developing. In 2005, 100 years after Svenson opened his studio, the Loyers\u2019 daughter, Anne Brande, purchased the Laramie branch. Today, Brande focuses her business, Ludwig Photography, on capturing emotional portraiture of the individuals she not only counts as clients, but as friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

The legacy of Henning Svenson lives on in the tens of thousands of priceless photos created by him and his descendants. For over 100 years, Anne Brande\u2019s family has documented the growth and transformation of a frontier town in a romantic era. As she flipped through a series of prints during my interview, the flux between the Old West and the modern era was glaringly obvious. For example, one 1920s era photo of Second Street in Downtown Laramie showed a street full of Ford Model T\u2019s and similar vehicles, both parked and driving \u2013 with a gentleman riding a horse right alongside them on the street.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I really love about Henning\u2019s photography is that it was not staged,\u201d Brande says. \u201cHe had a love of the West, but also an appreciation for industrialization and modern elements. He\u2019d often image these two elements side-by-side, just as they appeared in real life.\u201d Brande and I mused about the horse and rider in the image \u2013 this was no parade, this was an average day in Laramie in the 1920s. Did the rider refuse to give up his horse for an automobile? Could he not afford one? Or was he terrified at the thought of operating a piece of machinery versus relying upon his horse? When your rapidly changing world allows for both animal and machine to coexist, how does one process that transformation? Henning Svenson captured this and thousands of other moments like these \u2013 individuals who had witnessed the West, and were now standing by while it changed before their very eyes.\u00a0 His images helped me understand the gravity of living in a rapidly changing world. Often times I think that our world today is rapidly changing, however when I consider the flux my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents witnessed, I can appreciate the emotion of their experience.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the historic significance of her family\u2019s collection in mind, Brande has donated portions of the images to the American Heritage Center, a part of the University of Wyoming. The first half was valued at over $2 million, with another large portion recently appraised for almost $500,000 by Penelope Dixon & Associates. \u201cI\u2019ve been told that our collection is the only of its kind in the world both on a fine art basis and a social context,\u201d Brande says. \u201cIt\u2019s so vast and covers over 104 years and spans four generations, while also being well catalogued. It\u2019s a very rare find.\u201d The American Heritage Center\u2019s collection of over 4,000 images can be viewed under ‘Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection’ in the digital collections section on the AHC website. (uwyo.edu\/ahc)<\/em><\/p>\n

Brande and her family\u2019s century of images have been a part of numerous projects throughout the years: from historical research to exhibits, from books and magazines to film. Ludwig Photography of Laramie and Portrait Artist Anne Brande continue to create emotional heirlooms for their clients, continuing the family tradition into the 21st<\/sup> century. Visit ludwigphoto.com<\/a> or visit the studio at 224 Ivinson Avenue in Downtown Laramie to meet Anne.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We greatly appreciate Ludwig Photography for hosting an open house featuring over a century of their family’s photography of the Laramie and Southeast Wyoming area. This free event runs from 10 AM – noon on Saturday, May 31 and is a neat opportunity to experience the history of Laramie up close. visit our website to purchase tickets The open house is one of many events during the Food + Photo Festival in Laramie May 30 & 31. Other events include: Friday, May 30 — Free Open House, Alice Hardie Stevens Center: \u00a0View photography submitted in the photo competition 7-10 PM Saturday, May 31 — Free Open House, Historic Laramie Photography — Ludwig Photography: \u00a010 AM – Noon Saturday, May 31 — Learn How Altitude Makes a Great Local Beer + Beer Tasting — Altitude Chophouse & Brewery: \u00a02-3 PM \u00a0$15\/ticket Saturday, May 31 — Wine Tasting — Laramie Country Club: \u00a07-10 PM $30\/ticket We were lucky to feature Ludwig’s story in our Sprinter 2014 issue of\u00a0Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine. Below are some excerpts from the article showcasing the family’s story… On a September day in 1905, photographer Henning Svenson stepped off the train in Laramie. Inspired by the West and looking for adventure, Svenson arrived in the frontier town with one dollar in his pocket and a quest to open a photography studio. The opportunities Wyoming offers to reinvent one\u2019s self are not available elsewhere; in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that was even more the case than it is today. Svenson\u2019s road to Laramie was not direct, however. Born in Kiel, Germany on July 16, 1879, Svenson served as a photographic apprentice to Ferdinand Urbahns from 1895-98. This was followed by work in retouching in Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris. Svenson attended the World\u2019s Fair in Paris, where he met Amy DuPont, who encouraged him to come to work in her New York City studio. In 1902, Svenson immigrated to the United States, and created portraits of DuPont\u2019s New York clientele before joining his brother in Iowa. The two brothers opened a photography studio, with Henning later setting out to open a branch out west. He traveled first to Denver, but found the city didn\u2019t suit him; he boarded a train north, and the rest is history \u2013 well-photographed history, to be exact. Svenson established a solid clientele and a reputation as the premier photography studio in the region. Henning and Marie\u2019s family also grew to include three daughters, Helen, Aneleas and Lottie. The Chauncey Root Building burnt to the ground (with Svenson injured in the blaze) in 1910 due to a boiler explosion. The studio relocated to 314 South Second Street, above a pool hall, until Svenson built his permanent location on the corner of Third Street & Ivinson (where the studio sits today). \u201cMy great-grandfather was unique in that he empowered his daughters to be a part of the family business,\u201d Brande, who is the current owner of the family business, says. All three of Svenson\u2019s daughters attended the University of Wyoming and worked in the studio. The older sisters became film developers; Lottie\u2019s talent was capturing images alongside her father. Svenson Photography created tens of thousands of regional images annually, many used for postcards, father and daughter equally responsible for the work. Sadly, Henning Svenson died in 1932 at the age of 52 from lung complications, his daughters assuming the role of studio ownership and operations. Eldest daughter Helen was the first to assume ownership of the studio. Lottie Svenson married Walter \u201cDoc\u201d Ludwig, and in 1943 the couple purchased the studio from Helen, renaming it Ludwig Photo Enterprises. Lottie played an equal and important role in the studio alongside her husband. \u201cMy grandmother was a progressive woman,\u201d Brande says with a smile. \u201cShe raced motorcycles, wore pants, and even broke horses when she was a kid.\u201d Walter and Lottie Ludwig had one daughter, Carol, who had a sense of adventure like her mother and grandfather before her. In the 1940s, the family acquired a ranch on the Wyoming\/Colorado border, and Carol embraced a love of ranching life and the West. She served as Miss Laramie Jubilee Days 1961 and first runner-up to Miss Rodeo Wyoming. She was one of the first women to climb Devils Tower, competed in slalom and was a ski instructor at Winter Park, using folk singing to finance her skiing obsession. Carol married Bill Loyer, Ludwig Photo Enterprises\u2019s Kodak Eastman representative at the time. The two honeymooned through Europe for a month before settling in New Jersey. However, the love of Wyoming called them home, and the two opened a studio branch in Cheyenne, working alongside Carol\u2019s parents in the Laramie branch. The couple grew the business into a regional hub for both portrait photography and film developing. In 2005, 100 years after Svenson opened his studio, the Loyers\u2019 daughter, Anne Brande, purchased the Laramie branch. Today, Brande focuses her business, Ludwig Photography, on capturing emotional portraiture of the individuals she not only counts as clients, but as friends. The legacy of Henning Svenson lives on in the tens of thousands of priceless photos created by him and his descendants. For over 100 years, Anne Brande\u2019s family has documented the growth and transformation of a frontier town in a romantic era. As she flipped through a series of prints during my interview, the flux between the Old West and the modern era was glaringly obvious. For example, one 1920s era photo of Second Street in Downtown Laramie showed a street full of Ford Model T\u2019s and similar vehicles, both parked and driving \u2013 with a gentleman riding a horse right alongside them on the street. \u201cWhat I really love about Henning\u2019s photography is that it was not staged,\u201d Brande says. \u201cHe had a love of the West, but also an appreciation for industrialization and modern elements. He\u2019d often image these two elements side-by-side, just as they appeared in real life.\u201d Brande and I mused about the horse and rider in the image \u2013 this was no parade, this was an average day in Laramie in the 1920s. Did the rider refuse to give up his horse for an automobile? Could he not afford one? Or was he terrified at the thought of operating a piece of machinery versus relying upon his horse? When your rapidly changing world allows for both animal and machine to coexist, how does one process that transformation? Henning Svenson captured this and thousands of other moments like these \u2013 individuals who had witnessed the West, and were now standing by while it changed before their very eyes.\u00a0 His images helped me understand the gravity of living in a rapidly changing world. Often times I think that our world today is rapidly changing, however when I consider the flux my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents witnessed, I can appreciate the emotion of their experience. With the historic significance of her family\u2019s collection in mind, Brande has donated portions of the images to the American Heritage Center, a part of the University of Wyoming. The first half was valued at over $2 million, with another large portion recently appraised for almost $500,000 by Penelope Dixon & Associates. \u201cI\u2019ve been told that our collection is the only of its kind in the world both on a fine art basis and a social context,\u201d Brande says. \u201cIt\u2019s so vast and covers over 104 years and spans four generations, while also being well catalogued. It\u2019s a very rare find.\u201d The American Heritage Center\u2019s collection of over 4,000 images can be viewed under ‘Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection’ in the digital collections section on the AHC website. (uwyo.edu\/ahc) Brande and her family\u2019s century of images have been a part of numerous projects throughout the years: from historical research to exhibits, from books and magazines to film. Ludwig Photography of Laramie and Portrait Artist Anne Brande continue to create emotional heirlooms for their clients, continuing the family tradition into the 21st century. 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