Meadows Museum "Eye of Genius" exhibit features Kilby's photographs and historical objects
"The Eye of Genius" exhibit highlights Kilby’s photographs, his Nobel Prize as well as documents and museum objects from the Jack Kilby and the TI historical archives. |
To honor the 50th anniversary of Jack Kilby's significant invention of the microchip, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University (SMU) is featuring "The Eye of Genius," an exhibition of Kilby's photographs.
On display are 58 of his finest works drawn from the collection of photographs now housed at the DeGolyer Library at SMU. The exhibit also highlights selected manuscripts and objects such as Kilby's original notebook with the IC design drawings, his Nobel Prize, and the first integrated circuit and first calculator, drawn from the TI historical archives, the Jack Kilby collection, and loaned material from the family and TI.
The exhibit is open to the public free of charge through Sept. 21.
Although the world-changing impacts of Kilby's inventions are well-known, most people are unaware of his artistic bent, which included photography of great sensitivity and beauty. He captured people at work, cityscapes and industrial landscapes, and he also used various photographic processes to experiment with abstraction.
Kilby left a prodigious body of work produced over 20 years – some 18,000 negatives. After his death in 2005, Kilby's daughters donated a significant collection of materials relating to both his career as an engineer and life as a photographer to SMU's DeGolyer Library, home of the TI corporate archive.
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