Last week we told you about GQ design director Fred Woodward 's first photo exhibition . Another fellow whose prowess as a photographer has been overshadowed by other impressive achievements? Jack Kilby ( pictured at left, around 1960 ), the late Nobel prize-winning inventor of the integrated circuit , among other things. On Saturday, an exhibition of 58 of Kilby's photographs opened at Southern Methodist University (SMU)'s Meadows Museum in Dallas. "Kilby printed his own negatives and showed real ingenuity in framing, printing, and cropping his photographs," writes Anne Peterson , the show's curator, in the exhibition notes. "The subjects he chose fall into several categories: cityscape, industrial, landscape, people, as well as abstractions and experimentation with processes." One shot of a woman pushing an infant in a stroller down an otherwise deserted stretch of cobblestones in Germany has the ethereal, shadowy gleam of Henri Cartier-Bresson , while we can't help but scan the landscape of Kilby's 1970 photo of an abandoned farmhouse for a writhing Wyeth ian woman. continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...
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Last week we told you about GQ design director Fred Woodward 's first photo exhibition . Another fellow whose prowess as a photographer has been overshadowed by other impressive achievements? Jack Kilby ( pictured at left, around 1960 ), the late Nobel prize-winning inventor of the integrated circuit , among other things. On Saturday, an exhibition of 58 of Kilby's photographs opened at Southern Methodist University (SMU)'s Meadows Museum in Dallas. "Kilby printed his own negatives and showed real ingenuity in framing, printing, and cropping his photographs," writes Anne Peterson , the show's curator, in the exhibition notes. "The subjects he chose fall into several categories: cityscape, industrial, landscape, people, as well as abstractions and experimentation with processes." One shot of a woman pushing an infant in a stroller down an otherwise deserted stretch of cobblestones in Germany has the ethereal, shadowy gleam of Henri Cartier-Bresson , while we can't help but scan the landscape of Kilby's 1970 photo of an abandoned farmhouse for a writhing Wyeth ian woman. continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...