American Classroom: the Photographs of Catherine Wagner

NY: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1988. First Edition. Oversized oblong octavo; chielfy photographs; 83p; 25cm. Very good. Paperback. ISBN: 0890900477; 0893813389

A stirring collection of Catherine Wagner's photographs of classrooms across the United States. Part of the Target Collection of American Photography. "Our classrooms with all they imply have been reasonably unerring reflections of the broader culture that has encompassed them from the outside-the momentary passions and values and complexities and doubts and whims and shortcomings of a given place and caste and time. The physical artifacts themselves, as Ms. Wagner's work eloquently testifies, are mirrors of the day and the mood and indeed, if one looks closely, even of the nuance and reality of the particular American region." --William Morris.

Contents: The American classroom / Willie Morris. No-nonsense scrutiny in search of vernacular beauty / Anne Wilkes Tucker. Notes: Catalogue of the exhibition held Sept. 10 to Nov. 27, 1988, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Education, material culture of the classroom.