Dr Martyn Jolly
Phd, University of Sydney, 2003
Honorary Associate Professor, School of Art and Design
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Art Criticism 190101
- Art Theory 190103
- Art History 190102
- Lens Based Practice 190503
- Art Theory And Criticism 1901
Research interests
Australian photography history
Contemporary Australian photographers
Australian photography curating
The magic lantern in Australia and the world
Australian photobooks
Australian new media and its antecedents in Australia
Archives
Reenactment
Biography
Dr Martyn Jolly is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University School of Art and Design. With a background in photographic practice as well as photographic history and theory he has developed theoretical and practice-led research into: the implications of digital media and its historical antecedents for society; the impacts of digital media on photography curating; Australian photobooks; early Australian multimedia of the post war decades; magic lantern technology in Australia and the world; and contemporary reenactment strategies.
His most significant publications ar the book Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography, published internationally by the British Library, Melbourne University Press, and Mark Batty in 2006 and Empire Early Photograhy and Spectactle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J. W. Newland, published by Routledge in 2020 9co-auhteored with Dr Elisa deCourcy). In 2003 he was commissioned to design and build the ACT Bushfire memorial with two other artists, and his work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Canberra Museum and Gallery. He has developed performances for the National Portrait Gallery and other institutions
In 2011 he was a Sir Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia, and a Collection Scholar and Artist in Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive. In 2013 he received a $20,000 Australia Council Grant to research photography curating in Australia in the age of photo sharing. He is a Chief Invesitigator on the ARC Discovery Project Photography Curating in the Age of Photosharing, and lead Chief Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project Heritage in the Limelight: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World
Researcher's projects
Australian photography curating in the age of photo sharing, Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP15.
Heritage in the Limelight: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World, Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP16.
Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski: pioneer of collaboration in Australian new media
Reenactment in contemporary Australian art and museum practice
Publications
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2021, Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020), Perimeter Editions, Melbourne.
- deCourcy, E & Jolly, M 2021, Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland, Routledge, Abingdon.
- Jolly, M, Hunter, A, Martin, C et al. 2020, Magic lantern performance, Suburban Apparitions, for ACT Historic Places at Calthorpes House.
- Jolly, M 2020, 'The magic lantern at the edge of empire: The experience of dissolving views and phantasmagoria in colonial Australia ', in Sarah Dellmann & Frank Kessler (ed.), A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning, Indiana University Press, Indiana, pp. 39-50.
- Jolly, M & deCourcy, E, eds, 2020, The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting, Routledge, New York.
- deCourcy, E & Jolly, M 2020, Portrait of Hemi Pomare as a young man: how we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a M�ori, pp. online.
- Jolly, M 2020, 'Book Review: Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 102-103.
- Jolly, M 2020, 'The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting', in Martyn Jolly & Elisa deCourcy (ed.), The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-15.
- deCourcy, E & Jolly, M 2020, Portrait of Hemi Pômare as a young man: how we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Mâori, pp. The Conversation 30 June 2020; Re-reported in The Smithsonian 1 July 2020.
- Jolly, M & deCourcy, E 2020, 'The Circus and the Magic Lantern: A Portfolio of Hand-Painted Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides', in Anna-Sophie Jürgens (ed.), Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 123-141.
- Jolly, M 2019, 'Frontier and Metropole, Science and Colonisation: The Systematic Exhibitions of Richard Daintree', History of Photography, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 359-379.
- Jolly, M 2019, 'The Light of the World: transport and transmission in colonial modernity', Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 17, no. 3-4, pp. 304-321.
- Jolly, M 2019, 'Practice-led research by creative re-use in the Australian Research Council Project Heritage in the Limelight: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World', Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 119-125.
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2019, 'Salon Pictures, Museum Records, and Album Snapshots: Australian Photography in the Context of the First World War'', History of Photography, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 60-83.
- deCourcy, E & Jolly, M 2018, 'Heritage in the Limelight, a Collection in Progress: uncovering, connecting, researching and animating Australia's magic lantern past', Open Library of the Humanities, Special Edition: Remaking Collections, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
- Jolly, M 2017, Closer : Portraits of Survival.
- Jolly, M & Hazelgrove, P 2017, 'Raeburn'.
- Jolly, M 2017, 'Sunbaker', Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker.
- Jolly, M 2017, Kings Bloody Cross: Surface Glitter and Underground Guts.
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2017, 'Curating Photography'.
- Jolly, M & deCourcy, E 2017, 'Archive in the Spotlight'.
- Jolly, M, deCourcy, E, Hunter, A et al. 2017, Magic lantern show, for the Transit Lounge of Photography Symposium, Centre for Contemporary Photography and Deakin University, 21 October. Curated by Patrick Pound.
- Jolly, M, Hunter, A, Martin, C et al 2016, 'Heritage in the limelight Various Venues (2012-2016)'.
- Jolly, M, Hunter, A, Jolly, C et al 2016, 'Double drowning fatality'.
- Jolly, M, Hunter, A & Martin, C 2016, 'Canberra Obscura'.
- Jolly, M, Hunter, A, Martin, C et al 2016, 'Magic Lantern Horror Show'.
- Jolly, M 2016, Cihuateotl's Myth: Octavio Garcia Alvarado, pp. 1-4pp.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'The Photograph and Australia, curated by Judy Annear', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 244-248.
- Jolly, M 2015, Digital Projection on National Library of Australia façade as part of Enlighten.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'BLOG - Braddon, Bloody Braddon'.
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2015, PRESENTATION - Archiving, Collecting, Curating, and Exhibiting.
- Jolly, M 2015, The Truth about Digital Photography.
- Jolly, M & Oates, A 2015, 'Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, an Australian artist between Art, Industry', Media Art History, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Concordia University, Concordia University and UQAM, Montreal, pp. 9pp.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'The Face in Digital Space', in Anne Marsh, Melissa Miles, Daniel Palmer (ed.), The Culture of Photography in Public Space, Intellect Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 144-157.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'A Melbourne Spiritualists carte de visite album', Spectral Stories, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'Delicious Moments: The carte de visite album in Australia', in (ed.), The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 234-235pp.
- Jolly, M 2015, An Australian Spiritualist's Personal Cartes-de-visite Album.
- Jolly, M 2015, 'Should art museums think of themselves as 'collections' or 'archives'?', Photography Curating in the Age of Photosharing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2015, Of Strange Glasses: Camera Obscuras, Brisbane and Robyn Stacey.
- Jolly, M, Fahd, C & Buljan, S 2015, 'The Alchemists'.
- Jolly, D 2014, 'Exposing the Australians: Australiana Photobooks of the 1960s', History of Photography, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 276-295.
- Jolly, M 2014, 'Fictive Facts: Digital Post-Production in contemporary Photojournalism and Documentary Practice', in Victoria Garnos-Williams (ed.), Photography and Fictions: locating dynamics in practice, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, pp. 30-35.
- Jolly, M 2014, 'Big Archives and Small Collections: Remarks on the Archival Mode in Contemporary Australian Art and Visual Culture', Public History Review, vol. 21, no. 2014, pp. 60-80.
- Jolly, M, Bowan, C & Tregear, P 2014, 'A performance of magic lantern slides with song and piano'.
- Jolly, M 2014, 'Robert Goodman in Australia and the Pacific', Broken Images: A symposium on early American Photography in the Asia Pacific, 1850-1950, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
- Jolly, D 2014, 'Art from Archives', Shaping Canberra, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, Canberra, p. 9.
- Jolly, M & Zahalka, A 2014, Anne Zahalka at Parliament House.
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2014, Networking the Tradition: Curating Photography in Australia, pp. 48-55.
- Jolly, M & Palmer, D 2013, 'Curating Photography in Australia', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, p. 11.
- Jolly, M 2013, Faces of the Living Dead; ACT Bushfire Memorial.
- Jolly, D 2013, 'Soldiers of the Cross: Time, Narrative and Affect', Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 293-311.
- Jolly, M, Ferris, D & Riddell, A 2013, Utopia within, across & beyond the University, p. 6.
- Jolly, M 2013, The Citizens of Canberra.
- Jolly, M 2013, Two untitled photographs.
- Jolly, M 2013, Faces of the Living Dead on silk.
- Jolly, M 2012, Joseph Perry and the Salvation Army Limelight Dept.
- Jolly, M 2012, 'Handmade Media', in Michelle Helmric (ed.), Return to Sender, University of Queensland, QLD, p. 999.
- Jolly, M 2012, 'Introductory essay', in M Jolly & Y Norris (ed.), Belco Pride / Lee Grant Essays, Authentic Press, Canberrra, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2011, 'National Library of Australia Harold White Research Fellow Presentation', Harold White Fellowship Presentation, National Library of Australia, Canberra Australia, pp. 15 pp.
- Jolly, M 2011, 'The significance of the NFSA lantern slide collection', National Film and Sound Archive Research Fellows lecture, National Film and Sound Archive, Online, pp. 16 pp.
- Jolly, M 2011, 'Cardinal Points: the significance of visual vectors in Australian Landscape Photography', Subject and object in 21st century photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, pp. 4pp.
- Jolly, M 2011, 'Australian tableau photography in the 1980s: Tableau Vivant, symposium, National Gallery of Australia', Tableau Vivant, ed. Anne O'Hehir, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Australia, pp. 9pp.
- Steele, J & Jolly, M 2011, 'Generating a new sense of place in the age of the metaview', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 461-474.
- Jolly, M 2011, Ten Ways to look at the Past.
- Jolly, M 2011, Nineteen Sixty-Three: News and Information 1997.
- Jolly, M 2010, Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980.
- Jolly, M 2010, 'embody-meant', in (ed.), embody-meant, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia, pp. 4-6.
- Jolly, M 2010, 'Facial Velocities', Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present, National Portrait Gallery & Humanities Research Centre ANU, Canberra.
- Jolly, M 2010, 'Equivalent to What? Alfred Stieglitz's Clouds in Context', Alfred Stieglitz Symposium, ed. Judy Annear, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW.
- Jolly, M 2009, 'Spiritualist's carte-de-visite album', AHRC - Beyond Text conference: Visual Cultures of Spiritualism and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK.
- Jolly, M 2009, When in Venice ..., pp. 24-26.
- Jolly, M 2009, 'Photographs of Time and History (Foreword)', in Alexander James (ed.), The Twilight of Mr Kemp: Landscapes 1797-1897, Alexander James, Darling Point, Sydney, Australia, pp. unpaginated.
- Jolly, M 2008, 'Full-Body Spirit Materializations: Mediums, Spirits, Séances and Believers in the Nineteenth Century', Passing: A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Jolly, M 2008, 'Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!', Photofile, vol. 83, pp. 56-59.
- Jolly, M 2007, 'Wolfgang Sievers' Photographs: From the Future to the Past', in Stuart Bailey (ed.), Wolfgang Sievers 1913-2007: Work, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 5-14.
- Jolly, M & Giles, K 2007, 'Panic and Paranoia: Photography and the Law', Photofile, vol. 80, pp. 22-25.
- Jolly, M 2006, 'The Photographic Seances of Mrs Annie Mellon', Reinventing the Medium, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'Ectoplasm', Body Modification: Mark II, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'Photographic Spectres in Contemporary Art', Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2005, ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'Spectres from the Archive', MESH, vol. 18, pp. 23-31.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'Don't You See Their Faces? The Belief in Spirit Photography', in Daniel Palmer (ed.), Photogenic: Essays/Photography/CCP 2000-2004, Centre for Contemporary Photography & Ellikon Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 9-17.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'The darkroom in the age of post-film photography', Artlink, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 28-30.
- Jolly, M 2008, 'Peace After War and Memories', in Natasha Bullock (ed.), Harold Cazneaux: Artist in Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, p. 136.
- Ferris, D & Jolly, M 2008, 'Collateral Damage', Art Monthly Australia (AMA), vol. 211, pp. 5-7.
- Jolly, M 2008, 'Parade: manufacturing selves in photography'.
- Jolly, M 2007, 'The Face of Australia', in A Hassam, a Sarwai (ed.), Australian Studies Now, Indialog Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 134-141.
- Jolly, M 2007, 'International Documentary Photography', in Judy Annear (ed.), Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 151-157.
- Jolly, M 2006, Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography, Mark Batty Publisher, New York USA.
- Horwitz, T, Steel, A & Jolly, M 2006, ACT Bushfire Memorial, ACT Bushfire Memorial, Stromlo Forest Park, Weston, ACT, Australia.
- Jolly, M 2005, 'Spectres from the Archive', in Martha Langford (ed.), Image and Imagination, McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada, pp. 173-184.
- Jolly, M 2003, 'Composite Propaganda Photographs during the First World War', History of Photography, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 154-165.
- Jolly, M 2002, 'Faces of the Living Dead', Photofile, vol. 66, pp. 35-39.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Heritage in the limelight: the magic lantern in Australia and the world 1840-1940 (Primary Investigator)
- 'RMIT Ext Lead' Curating Photography in the Age of Photo Sharing (Secondary Investigator)
