Guy Kendall's Photography
Exploring Guy Kendall’s photographic work starting in 1924, the viewer watches the progression from posed still shots of horses with their trainer/drivers to action shots which capture the excitement of races at the finish line. Through the albums, one is able to watch the growth of relationships between Kendall and the horsemen and women of the southern Maine fair circuit as remote, documentary snaps of horses and drivers become intimate portraits both at the race track and on area farms.
Kendall’s career at the track was put on pause in 1928 as he courted and then married Ruth B. Bennett. Kendall’s work resumed in the album labeled 1930a, where it is possible to see a quantum leap in the quality of his composition from images that were simply a matter of record to those with genuine artistic flair.
According to his niece, Anne Kendall Holmbom, Kendall used a Graflex box camera and glass negatives to capture many of his early photographs. He developed, printed, and re-touched all his photographs personally in his studio located on Congress Street in Portland, Maine.
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Top Hat - Reed up
Owner: George H. Reed of the Reed Brothers Stable
Driver: Reed
Race: 2.07 Pace
Date: 7-24-1940 -
Top Hat (Reed up) wins 2nd race
Owner: George H. Reed of the Reed Brothers Stable
Driver: Reed
Race: 2.07 Pace
Date: 7-24-1940 -
Topsy Hanover
Owner: Hanover Shoe Farms
Driver: T. Berry
Race: The Rotary International Three-Year-Old Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Topsy Hanover
Owner: Hanover Shoe Farms
Driver: T. Berry
Race: The Rotary International Three-Year-Old Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Topsy Hanover wins 5th race
Owner: Hanover Shoe Farms
Driver: T. Berry
Race: The Rotary International Three-Year-Old Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Topsy Hanover wins 5th race
Owner: Hanover Shoe Farms
Driver: T. Berry
Race: The Rotary International Three-Year-Old Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Topworthy
Owner: Waldoboro Garage Co. (Forest Bond & John Miller)
Driver: Patterson
Race: 2.18 Trot
Date: 8-1932 -
Topworthy
Owner: Waldoboro Garage Co. (Forest Bond & John Miller)
Driver: Butler
Race: 2.15 Pace
Date: 10-2-1935 -
Topworthy beats <b>Miss Bonnie Frisco</b>
Owner: A. E. Russell
Driver: Russell
Race: 2.18 Trot
Date: 8-18-1932 -
<b>Topworthy</b> beats Miss Bonnie Frisco
Owner: Waldoboro Garage Co. (Forest Bond & John Miller)
Driver: I. Patterson
Race: 2.18 Trot
Date: 8-18-1932 -
<b>Topworthy</b> beats Plucky Pluto
Owner: Waldoboro Garage Co. (Forest Bond & John Miller)
Driver: Patterson
Race: 2.17 Trot
Date: 9-5-1932 -
Topworthy beats <b>Plucky Pluto</b>
Owner: C. P. Chappelle, agent
Driver: Chappelle
Race: 2.17 Trot
Date: 9-5-1932
