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Henry Horenstein

Bartender, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974

Description

Maker

  • Henry Horenstein, American, (RISD BFA 1971; MFA 1973, Photography) RISD Faculty, 1982-present

Title

Bartender, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee

Year

1974

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 50.8 x 40.3 cm (20 x 15 7/8 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2007.116.6

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

The mania for collecting photographs that began in the 1800s continues today through “liking” friends’ and celebrities’ Instagram posts. In the 1900s, Walker Evans and Henry Horenstein captured glimpses of the ways communities picture themselves. Horenstein portrays Wanda Lohman presiding over the bar at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a famous honky-tonk around the corner from the Grand Ole Opry. Tootsie’s “wall of fame” included photographs, signed posters, album covers, and memorabilia, a kind of community scrapbook of the country-music world.

Honky Tonk Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981

June 29 - October 7, 2007

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Bartender, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee with the accession number of 2007.116.6. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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