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 Euclid beats John Dean
Owner: George Reed
Driver: Chappelle
Race: 2.15 Trot
Date: 10-14-1937 -
Calumet Euclid--Goodhart up, wins 2nd race
Owner: Reed Brothers
Driver: Goodhart
Race: 2.22 Trot
Date: 8-3-1937 -
Calumet Euclid wins 1st race
Owner: George Reed
Driver: Jimmy Jordan
Race: Classified Pace
Date: 7-19-1940 -
Calumet Eugenia
Owner: James H. Porteous
Driver: F. Scroggins
Race: Old Orchard Beach Track Association
Date: 6-26-1936 -
Calumet Evart
Owner: Mrs. A. G. (Edna E.) Day
Driver: Day
Race: Falmouth Hotel 2.17 Trot
Date: 8-14-1937 -
Calumet Evart -- Day up
Owner: Archie G. Day, Jr.
Driver: A. Day
Race: 2.18 Class Trot
Date: 10-1-1937 -
Calumet Evart wins
Owner: Edny E. Day
Driver: Day
Race: West Oxford Agricultural Society, Fryeburg, Maine
Date: 10-6-1939 -
Calumet Evart wins
Owner: Edna E. Day (wife of Archie G. Day)
Driver: Archie Day
Race: 2.11 Trot
Date: 9-1-1937
