Photojournalism in the Making

1. Photojournalism in the Making The Original Artist By: Dakota Anderson-Kaapa

2. Camera Obscura • What is it? : NOUN • a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography. • It’s a special camera technique, in a way reminds me of a projector.

3. What does it do? • Functionand description : The CameraObscura projects an image on a white concave horizontal screen, like on a table, which is situated in the center of completely darkened, black painted room. • Portraying the image in a new way for viewers to see in new light through the dark • In other words it’s the screen on the newer cameras to see the picture you’re about to take

4. Eye Catchers The fact that this was basically the first digital camera ever made, and in a technicality it was never really digital compared to todays cameras. (AKA) Interesting Facts

5. Johann Zahn • (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus ArtificialisTeledioptricusSive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685). This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. As a student of light, Zahn is considered the most prolific writer and illustrator of the camera obscura. (Wikipidia) EL Creatador(“The Creator” in Dakotaneese)

6. What Made Him Do It? The camera obscura, the device that led to the invention of photography, served many purposes in the eighteenth century—from the scientific uses of viewing sunspots or demonstrating the nature of vision, to serving the needs of engravers or traveling landscape artists.