Born in
Toronto, Jock Carroll developed a 40-year career as a
photojournalist, commencing in the late 1940s. He both took and developed his own photographs from a self-made
darkroom and quickly became popular for being able to produce news reports with accompanying photographs. His first published works appeared in such magazines as
Saturday Night,
Sports Illustrated and
Esquire. In 1950, Carroll joined
Weekend magazine as a staff writer. He ultimately became the associate editor of the magazine, during the course of his twenty-year association with it. Carroll was able to persuade management at
Weekend Magazine to sponsor Pak Jong Yong's university education in Canada. the
Authors League of America, the
Professional Photographers Association of Canada and the
Ontario Sports Writers Association. In 1961,
Bottoms Up, Carroll's only novel, was published by
Olympia Press. It was reissued by
Collectors Publications in 1967. Collectors Publications, similar to Olympia Press, was known for publishing risqué novels. The novel is a satire about the magazine industry, with the heroine based on Marilyn Monroe, whom Carroll had interviewed and photographed in 1952. Carroll then became associated with Pocket Books Canada as the editor of a series of mass-market paperbacks by Canadian authors, known as "Carroll's Canadian Originals". Included in the series was Carroll's own book,
Down The Road, published in 1974. The book was promoted as "Uninhibited talks with Marilyn Monroe and other famous sex symbols. Photos." and included a cover photo of a Marilyn Monroe
lookalike. In 1984, Carroll contributed the text to
The Farm, which featured photographs by
Reuben R. Sallows and
John de Visser. Reuben Sallows (1855–1937) had gained fame as one of Canada's early professional photographers, while John de Visser had been a professional photographer in Canada since the early 1960s. The book, published by
Methuen to commemorate the
sesquicentennial of Ontario, was a history of Ontario farming in the early 20th century. Black and white photos by Sallows were complemented by contemporary colour photos by de Visser, plus text from Carroll. In 1995, Carroll was subject to a claim in relation to
copyright and ownership issues, regarding his book of photographs of
Glenn Gould, (
Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man, (
Stoddart 1995). Carroll had taken the photographs in 1956, during the course of also interviewing Gould for a magazine article. The
Court of Appeal for Ontario found in Carroll's favour in the decision of
Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., though the decision was rendered subsequent to Carroll's death. In 1996, Carroll's book,
Falling For Marilyn: The Lost Niagara Collection, was published posthumously by Stoddart Publishing. It contains photographs of
Marilyn Monroe taken by Carroll in 1952, on the set of the film
Niagara, which had originally accompanied a 1952 article by Carroll in
Weekend magazine. ==Publications==