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Angelika I am still, as is well known, mourning the darkroom and the UC Berkeley Extension location on Laguna Street. I took quite a few courses there and spent hours developing my photos.
On the site, by the way, as we all suspected back then, nothing has happened. The buildings remain unused and idle. A pity! Thank God, however, there is still the so-called in San Francisco. Centro del Libro .. an institution that opened its doors in San Francisco in the summer of 1996 and is entirely dedicated to the art of the book.
Besides smaller exhibitions, the main focus of the institution is to teach eager students how to make handmade books. On one hand, you learn the craft skills, such as how to sew pages into a book cover with needle and thread. But it's also about the book as an art object. In the age of digital mass production, this craft is experiencing a kind of renaissance. A variety of courses are offered, which either take place over several evenings or on weekends. I have already taken a few, from classical bookbinding to creating books that house three-dimensional objects. However, I have not yet dared to approach the old printing presses that stand around the center like in Gutenberg's time.
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