Installation View offers a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important exhibitions and modes of collection and display. From colonial records to contemporary art, the book presents a chronology of rarely seen installation views from both well-known and forgotten exhibitions, along with a series of essays that tell the story of the individuals and institutions that have proved intrinsic to the public circulation of photographs.

At once specific and widely contextual in its scope, this longterm research project from two of Australia's leading academics and educators in the field enriches our understanding of the diversity of Australian photography by looking at what lies beyond the photograph itself. Spanning daguerreotypes, photographic society exhibitions, illustrated press and journals, photography's emergence in art museums, key institutional figures and curators, and the contemporary diversity of photographic practice, Installation View positions photography exhibitions and their contexts as cultural barometers of their times.

Daniel Palmer's scholarly writings, catalogue essays and reviews on photography and contemporary art have appeared in various journals, art magazines and publications internationally. Martyn Jolly is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University School of Art and Design.