Henry Horenstein

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.