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Photography: Books

Resources for students on Photography courses

Illustrated Map of FCH Library

Illustrated Map of FCH Library, by Abi Riley, BA Illustration, 2022

Finding books in the library

UoG Library book collections

Search Library Discovery for our print and eBooks. Results show the book location, organised on shelves by topic.

Remember to limit your search results to University of Gloucestershire to just display our own holdings.

Finding books with Library Discovery

Using our eBooks

eBook collections at UoG

UoG eBooks are available through Library Discovery.  They can also be accessed directly via our eBook provider platforms.

The main eBook providers for Creative Arts courses are:

Use eBooks for:

  • immediate access wherever you are
  • accessibility - you can alter the text size and background, or use a screen reader
  • search functionality

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Library Discovery

Student photobook collection

UoG student photobook collection

This year we have started our library student photobook collection.  Photography students were invited to submit their photobooks and photography staff made a selection for the library to purchase.  They are all catalogued on Library Discovery and can be found in #14 in FCH library. Note: these are for library use only.

Student photobooks

Cover image: Riconoscersi
Cover image: Sigi
Cover image: Staring at time
Cover image: Under the apricots
Cover image: Recycled fashion
Cover image: Witness marks
Cover image: Not there yet
Cover image: Grit & Grace
Cover image: Insomnia
Cover image: Love you
Cover image: Just give it a go
Cover image: Plastic Life

New books list

Have a look at the full list of new library resources for photography courses

Selected new books for Photography

Photography
Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images
Representation : cultural representations and signifying practices
Ecosee : image, rhetoric, nature
Hybridity in Life Writing : Combining Text and Images
AIDS and Representation: queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House
The Art of Climbing
Magnum America
Conflicting Images: histories of war photography in the news
Factory Photobooks: the self-representation of the factory in photographic publications 1890-1987
Cover image: The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
The Bible in Photography
Graphis Photography Annual 2024
The African Gaze: photography, cinema and power
Ellen Von Unwerth. Heimat
Burnthouse Lane
World Press Photo Yearbook 2024
The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century
On the Sixth Day
Chris Killip, 1946-2020
Shining lights: black women photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain
Cover image: The Astrophotography Manual
Cover image: The perception machine : our photographic future between the eye and AI
Black Masculinities
Studio Anywhere: a photographer's guide to shooting in unconventional locations
Ray's a laugh
Cover image: Digital SLR Astrophotography
Troubled land
Collaboration: a potential history of photography
Afterwards: contemporary photography confronting the past

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic Shelf number
Art theory and philosophy 701
Collections of photographers 779.0922
Digital photography 775
Fashion photography 779.22
Individual photographers
A-Z
779.092
Landscape photography 779.36
Photography annuals 779.05
Photography by country 779.094-099
Photography history 770.9
Photography of people 779.2
Photography theory 770.1
Photojournalism 779.907049
Photojournalism and
journalism theory
070.49

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Inter-Library Loan service for Books

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

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