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 Evelyn
Owner: McConville Brothers (Arthur F. and Daniel)
Driver: Vic Fleming
Race: Old Orchard Beach Track Association
Date: 7-28-1936 -
Calumet Evelyn
Owner: McConville Brothers (Arthur F. and Daniel)
Driver: V. Fleming
Race: Boston Globe Stake 2.09 Pace
Date: 8-3-1935 -
Calumet Evelyn
Owner: McConville Brothers (Arthur F. and Daniel)
Driver: Vic Fleming
Race: Old Orchard Beach Track Association
Date: 7-28-1936 -
Calumet Evelyn beats Angel Child
Owner: McConville Brothers
Driver: V. Fleming
Race: The Nelson, First Division for Trotters with Records Faster Than 2.04
Date: 7-27-1937 -
Calumet Evelyn wins
Owner: McConville Brothers (Arthur F. and Daniel)
Driver: V. Fleming
Race: Boston Globe Stake 2.09 Pace
Date: 8-3-1935 -
Calumet Feiber and Pedro Tipton
Owner: Joseph Soutar
Driver: Henry Clukey
Race: Free for All Trot
Date: 8-12-1941 -
Calumet Foray--Safford up
Owner: E. P. Cray
Driver: F. Safford
Race: 2.24 Class Trot
Date: 6-22-1936 -
Calumet Foray wins from Comrade
Owner: E. P. Cray
Driver: F. Safford
Race: 2.24 Class Trot
Date: 6-22-1936 -
Calumet Foretop wins 4th Race
Owner: James Phalen
Driver: Phalen
Race: Summer Race Meet
Date: 7-16-1936 -
Calumet Hanover
Owner: Fowler, Clapp and Temple
Driver: J. Hanafin
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-8-1940 -
Calumet Hanover
Owner: Fowler, Clapp and Temple
Driver: J. Hanafin
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-8-1940 -
Calumet Hanover wins 1st race
Owner: Fowler, Clapp and Temple
Driver: J. Hanafin
Race: Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach
Date: 7-8-1940
