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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Calumet Coburn
Owner: Daigle, Grant & Holdaway
Driver: J Grant
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-10-1940 -
Calumet Coburn
Owner: Daigle, Grant & Holdaway
Driver: J Grant
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-10-1940 -
Calumet Coburn wins 1st race
Owner: Daigle, Grant & Holdaway
Driver: J Grant
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-10-1940 -
Calumet Coburn wins 1st race
Owner: Daigle, Grant & Holdaway
Driver: J Grant
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-10-1940 -
Calumet Colburn
Owner: E. A. Grant
Driver: Barnett
Race: West Oxford Agricultural Society, Fryeburg, Maine
Date: 10-4-1939 -
Calumet Colburn
Owner: E. A. Grant
Driver: Barnett
Race: West Oxford Agricultural Society, Fryeburg, Maine
Date: 10-4-1939 -
Calumet Crusader
Owner: Arden Homestead Stable
Driver: W. Dickerson
Race: 2.11 Class Trot
Date: 8-2-1933 -
Calumet Crusader—Dickerson up
Owner: Arden Homestead Stable
Driver: W. Dickerson
Race: 2.11 Class Trot
Date: 8-2-1933 -
Calumet Crusader wins 6th race
Owner: Arden Homestead Stable
Driver: W. Dickerson
Race: 2.11 Class Trot
Date: 8-2-1933 -
Calumet Debutante—Gibbons up
Owner: George Cowdrey
Driver: W. Gibbons
Race: Non Winners of Two Races in 1933 Trot
Date: 8-11-1933 -
Calumet Debutante — Stokes up
Owner: George Cowdrey
Driver: Stokes
Race: Foals of 1930 Trot
Date: 7-15-1932
