BOOKS: KARMA & DASHWOOD

KARMA

Karma is a tiny shop in the front of an office where owner, Brendan Dugan sells his own catalog of pop-minimalist art books and posters alongside books and objects that inspire him. Dugan started the publishing arm of his business, An Art Serice in 2009 as an additional platform for the artists whose web sites and books he was already designing.

An Art Service, is a graphic design and art direction firm that Brendan Dugan founded in New York City in 2007. Recognized by its signature ‘reductive’ style, An Art Service has collaborated with artists: Richard Aldrich, Carol Bove, Dan Colen, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, The Estate of Lee Lozano, Paul McCarthy, Ryan McGinley, Adam McEwen, Bjarne Melgaard, Katy Perry, Richard Prince, Rob Pruitt, Dash Snow, Piotr Uklanski and others.

In addition to its own titles, Karma stocks periodicals, artworks, artists’ editions, rare & out-of-print items and other in-print titles by noted publishers.

DASHWOOD BOOKS

Opened in 2005, Dashwood Books, at 33 Bond Street is an independent bookstore devoted entirely to photography.

The last ten years has seen a radical change in the publishing of books on photography bringing about a new appreciation of the medium. So much so that the photographic book is recognized as an art-form on a par with the print, and a strong collectors’ market has developed with prices for rare books tripling over the past decade.

Dashwood Books is owned and operated by David Strettell, formerly the Cultural Director of Magnum Photos.

With a carefully curated inventory Dashwood Books specializes in the latest quality books on contemporary photography from the 1960s to the present, produced by fine publishers from Japan, Europe and the United States. Dashwood Books also specializes in rare vintage books as well as numerous other out-of-print and quality used titles.

The bookstore holds regular book-signings and events with recent guests including, Michael Stipe of R.E.M, Tim Barber, Jack Webb, Jason Nocito, Coley Brown and Ari Marcopoulos.