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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Captain Jack
Owner: E. L. Whitehead
Driver: H. Parshall
Race: Two Year Olds Pacing One Mile
Date: 8-10-1934 -
Captain Kidd (Buxton), July 5, 1941
Owner: A. L. Buxton
Driver: Buxton
Race: Classified Trot
Date: 7-5-1941 -
<b>Captain Tell</b> wins over Jack Hardy
Owner: C. T. Burns
Driver: Burns
Race: 2.22 Trot
Date: 8-1932 -
Captain Tell wins over <b>Jack Hardy</b>
Owner: Ralph L. Sturgis
Driver: Sturgis
Race: 2.22 Trot
Date: 8-1932 -
Cardinal Prince
Owner: E. J. Baker
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: The Old Orchard Free for All Pace
Date: 7-31-1936 -
Cardinal Prince wins 3rd Race
Owner: E. J. Baker
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: The Old Orchard Free for All Pace
Date: 7-31-1936 -
Cardinal Prince wins 4th race
Owner: Hotel Baker Stables
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Pacers with Records Faster than 2.04
Date: 7-26-1937 -
Cardinal Prince wins from Dominion Grattan and Jane Azoff
Owner: Hotel Baker Stables
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: The Old Orchard First Division for Pacers with Records Faster than 2.04
Date: 7-22-1937 -
Carl C.
Owner: A. J. Wills
Driver: Unknown
Race: The Shrine Club Free-For-All, Lewiston, Maine
Date: 9-4-1924 -
Carlysle Lassie
Owner: Lahar & Washburn
Driver: Unknown
Race: West Cumberland Fair 2.30 Mixed
Date: 9-24-1924 -
Carmen
Owner: Millbrook Stables
Driver: H. Parshall
Race: Foals of 1937 National Stake Pace
Date: 7-12-1939
