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=Joan Murray= Joan Murray (1927-2011) was a noted photographer, one of the first art critics of photography in California, and art and daguerreotype collector. Joan embarked on a multi-faceted career in photography that spanned five decades. As a photographer, she was particularly proud of her late 1960s series on the Black Panthers, her male nudes, and a series of portraits of California photographers that includes a signature image of Ruth Bernhard. Joan's work is featured in several photographic anthologies and is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, and the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. In 1969, Joan was appointed photography editor of Artweek and thus began a nearly two-decade career as an art writer. As an ongoing contributor to Artweek and Popular Photography, Joan was instrumental in focusing national attention on the Bay Area's flourishing photography scene. During this period she also taught photography at City College of San Francisco and UC Extension. In 1987, Joan embarked on a new phase of her career as manager of the ASUC Studio at UC Berkeley. During her sixteen-year tenure at ASUC, she expanded the program from 50 to 250 classes. Joan's interest in daguerreotypes culminated in her creating a particularly significant collection of these early photographic images and becoming a recognized authority on the subject. In this capacity she served as a research consultant to the J. Paul Getty Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Oakland Museum. Her last published article appeared in The Daguerreian Annual 2009/10.