Background
Joan Fell Murray was born on March 6, 1927, in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.
A view of the atrium of San Francisco Art Institute
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
Joan Fell Murray was born on March 6, 1927, in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.
Joan Murray was given her first camera at age 9 which was her introduction to a multi-faceted career in photography that spanned five decades. She studied photography at California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, the San Francisco Art Institute, Ruth Bernhard Insight Studio, and at the University of California Extension.
Joan Murray has been photography editor of Art- a week since 1969 and an associate editor of American Photographer since 1978. She was also a critic for Popular Photography (1973-1976). A lecturer at the University of California Extension, Berkeley, since 1970, she taught workshops with Wynn Bullock at the University's Santa Cruz Extension in 1974 and 1975. Joan Murray also taught at Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshop in 1974 and at San Francisco City College (1975-1976).
Black Panther demonstration photographed during the Huey Newton trial, outside of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland in 1968.
1968Black Panther demonstration photographed during the Huey Newton trial, outside of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland in 1968.
1968Black Panther demonstration photographed during the Huey Newton trial, outside of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland in 1968.
1968Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, Protests Against Violence, Strike For Peace Marches, World In Action
(Cal Berkeley 1970's: Kent Student Memorial Observation, P...)
Man
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Quotations:
"My camera has always been a way for me to connect with people or emotions, often connections I could not make without my camera. Because I have always been a shy person, the camera becomes my passage to reach another person or express an emotion."
"In the end, all of my photographs are perhaps best described as visual letters describing experiences which are meaningful to me."
Quotes from others about the person
Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers: "Joan Murray photographed the male figure as a way of demonstrating that, in Murray's words, 'men were as sensual to women, as women are to men.' Murray's 1969 exhibition in San Francisco, entitled Man, is thought to have been the first and largest show of such images by a woman."