Dashwood Books is New York City's only independent bookstore devoted entirely to photography, located in up-and-coming NoHo (North of Houston Street). Inspired by a new appreciation of the photographic book, the bookstore 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 imported books on contemporary photography as well as rare collectible titles from the 1960s to the present day.
At Dashwood Books, many important titles will be available in New York City for the first time. The bookstore on Bond Street will be programming book-signings and events and dashwoodbooks.com will be a convenient way to shop online for new and used titles while keeping up-to-date on the most interesting books being produced on the international market.
Eelco Wolf has a long history of involvement with the PRC. One of the organization's first Presidents, he also served as Interim Director in the 1990s and helped lead the 1992 auction to earn the highest profit to date.
He started his communications and management career at IBM Netherlands in 1959 and moved to Polaroid Corporation in 1966 where among many other tasks he oversaw the company's unique artist support programs and photography collections. He was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Agfa Corporation from 1998 to 1991 and Executive Director of Magnum Photos Worldwide, the renowned photography collaborative founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, from 1998 to 2000. He is a partner of The Eichorn Group, an international management company.
Wolf served on the boards of numerous arts institutions, including the Center of Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ); the Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, CA); the Friends of Photography (San Francisco, CA); on the advisory boards of the Society for Photographic Education; San Francisco Camera Work (San Francisco, CA); on the President's Council of the International Center for Photography (New York, NY); and is currently a member of the Photography Collection Committee of the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA).
