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 Devine
Owner: Dr. L. M. Guilinger
Driver: H. Parshall
Race: The American Stake Foals of 1934
Date: 8-2-1933 -
Calumet Dignity — Gibbons up
Owner: F. W. Woodman
Driver: Gibbons
Race: Foals of 1930 Trot
Date: 7-15-1932 -
Calumet Dilworthy
Owner: John R. James
Driver: W. Bull
Race: Classified One Mile Trot
Date: 7-20-1935 -
Calumet Dilworthy wins at Northampton
Owner: John R. James
Driver: W. Bull
Race: Classified One Mile Trot
Date: 7-4-1935 -
Calumet Dime
Owner: D. Gilman
Driver: Gilman
Race: West Oxford Agricultural Society, Fryeburg, Maine
Date: 10-5-1939 -
Calumet Dime beats Prince Direct
Owner: D. Gilman
Driver: Gilman
Race: West Oxford Agricultural Society, Fryeburg, Maine
Date: 10-5-1939 -
Calumet Dime (outside) wins 4th Race
Owner: Daniel E. Gilman
Driver: D. Gilman
Race: 2.12 Class Trot
Date: 9-30-1936 -
Calumet Dime wins 3rd race
Owner: Daniel E. Gilman
Driver: Gilman
Race: Classified Pace
Date: 9-17-1938
