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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Greyhound finishing the mile in 1:57 1/2
Owner: E. J. Baker, Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Special exhibition
Date: 7-27-1939 -
Greyhound (Fred Allen)
Owner: E. J. Baker, Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Special exhibition
Date: 7-27-1939 -
Greyhound--Palin up
Owner: Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Grand Circuit Meet
Date: 7-30-1936 -
Greyhound scoring for exhibition mile, Jim Kyle Wingfield with runner
Owner: E. J. Baker, Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Special exhibition
Date: 7-27-1939 -
Greyhound - Sep Palin
Owner: E. J. Baker, Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Special exhibition
Date: 7-27-1939 -
Greyhound wins 6th Race
Owner: Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Pine Tree Trot
Date: 7-30-1936 -
Greyhound wins over Tara
Owner: Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race: Pine Tree Trot
Date: 7-30-1936 -
Greyhound works out at Old Orchard
Owner: Colonel Edward J. Baker, the Hotel Baker Stable
Driver: Sep Palin
Race:
Date: 7-12-1939 -
Guardsman
Owner: J. C. Thompson
Driver: C. Dean
Race: The American Stake Three Year Olds Trot
Date: 8-3-1935 -
Guesswork
Owner: Unknown
Driver: W. Flemming
Race: Free for all, Sage Park, Windsor, Connecticut
Date: 7-9-1926
