Madsen's Photo Services, LLC provides professional photographic services including: photo restoration, retouching, professional photography, custom work such as cards, and producing prints from slides and negatives. Each day, he would take photos of his passengers. That night he would develop prints and would sell them the next day. In 1923, he and his sons formed “Madsen’s Photo Service”, a compa
ny that ultimately processed photos for much of Chicago and was quite successful until about 1990 when it was clear that digital photography would become king. Edward’s grandson, Claude Fennema, became interested in photography in 1955 when, as a boy, he received his first “serious” 35 mm camera as a present from his relatives at Madsen’s Photo Service. Since then, he has taken many thousands of photographs: of people, of celestial formations, of birds and animals, of landscapes, of microbes, and some of an artistic nature. For many years he maintained a darkroom where he could develop and correct his own photographs in .. both black and white and color. For more than 45 years Dr. Fennema’s career was grounded in image sciences: image processing, computer vision, and the psychology of vision. By 1990, Dr. Fennema realized that photography was definitely going digital and he began digitizing all of his 35mm slides so he could use them in his work. Since 2000, Dr. Fennema has been working on his family history. His favorite part of this work was working with the old family slides and photographs, some taken in the late 1800s. Many of these had been badly damaged over time. The very old black and white photos had faded quite a bit. Color photographs either faded or experienced sever color shifts. Most were scratched. To make a nice family history for his family he repaired them all … digitally. In 2013, Dr. Fennema decided to form a company called “Madsen Photo Services, LLC”. It is a revival of the family business in today’s world of digital photography. The company offers Digital Photo Services: digitizing, enhancing, correcting, combining, composing, and printing photos. We also offer the services of a professional photographer. See "products" for current offerings.
