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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<b>Call Money</b> and Hanover Express
Owner: George W. Finley
Driver: W. Carney
Race: Non Winners of Two Races on Grand Circuit Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
<b>Call Money</b> winning from Sanito
Owner: J. W. Carney
Driver: Carney
Race: 2.27 Class Pace
Date: 10-8-1930 -
Call Money winning from <b>Sanito</b>
Owner: Unknown
Driver: Chappelle
Race: 2.27 Class Pace
Date: 10-8-1930 -
<b>Call Money</b> wins from Marianna and Alvin Guy
Owner: George W. Finley
Driver: W. Carney
Race: Non Winners of Two Races on Grand Circuit Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Call Money wins from Marianna and <b>Alvin Guy</b>
Owner: Joseph Bolduc
Driver: J. Bolduc
Race: Non Winners of Two Races on Grand Circuit Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Call Money wins from <b>Marianna</b> and Alvin Guy
Owner: H. Stacy Smith
Driver: W. Hodson
Race: Non Winners of Two Races on Grand Circuit Trot
Date: 8-5-1933 -
Calmet Christine
Owner: Blue Ridge Stables
Driver: W. Britenfield
Race: Foals of 1929 Pace
Date: 6-2-1931 -
Calument Donald
Owner: William F. Caton
Driver: W. Caton
Race: The American Stake Foals of 1933
Date: 8-2-1933 -
Calumet Alden
Owner: Mrs. E. Keoagh
Driver: Unidentified
Race: Junior Free for All Pace
Date: 8-2-1939 -
Calumet Alice — Crawford up
Owner: H. W. Stanwood, MD
Driver: Crawford
Race: 2.18 Class Trot and Pace
Date: 9-1933
