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About the Photographer

Murphy, J.J.

American, b. 1947

JJ Murphy has been active as a filmmaker since 1971 and is interested in American Indie Cinema, screenwriting, avant–garde cinema, contemporary art, and the films of Andy Warhol. His films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). His articles have been published in such journals as Film Culture, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and the Journal of Screenwriting and he is the author of two books: Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work (Continuum, 2007) and The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (University of California Press, 2012).