Richard Quinney's Chronology

• 1934 Born May 16, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, to Alice Holloway Quinney, rural schoolteacher, and Floyd Quinney, third-generation farmer on the family farm in Walworth County.
• 1934–1948 Family photographs are taken regularly—with a Kodak box camera—resulting in several family albums.
• 1948–1952 Photographer and photography editor of Delavan High School newspaper, The Spotlight.
• 1956 Bachelor’s degree in sociology and -biology from Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  
• 1957 Master’s degree in sociology from Northwestern University.
  
• 1957–1962 Graduate work in rural sociology, anthropology, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Ph.D. degree awarded in 1962.
  
• 1958 Marriage to Valerie Yow, fellow graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
  
• 1959 Birth of daughter Laura Ellen in Madison, Wisconsin.
  
• 1960–1998 Faculty positions—from instructor to full professor—in sociology departments at St. Lawrence University, University of Kentucky, New York University, City University of New York, Boston College, and Northern Illinois University.
  
• 1962–present Influenced and inspired by the reading of books, especially Walden, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Tao Te Ching, Sand County Almanac, Spoon River Anthology, The Myth of Sisyphus, God’s Country and My People, The Land of Little Rain, Waiting for Godot, The Dhammapada, Stop-Time, A River Runs through It, The Bhagavad Gita, The Zen of Seeing, Markings, A Fortunate Man, Journal of Solitude, The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Land Remembers, Mornings in Mexico, The Great Gatsby, North Toward Home, The Miracle of Mindfulness, A Moveable Feast, The Inman Diary, Four Quartets, The Voyage of the Beagle, All the Strange Hours, O Pioneers!, As I Lay Dying, The Odyssey, and So Long, See You Tomorrow.
  
• 1965–1971 Move to New York City, and living in Greenwich Village. Teaching at New York University.
  
• 1967–present Books and journal articles are published in the academic fields of sociology and criminology, including the books Criminal Behavior Systems, The Social Reality of Crime, Critique of Legal Order, Providence, Social Existence, Criminology as Peacemaking, Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice, and Storytelling Sociology.
  
• 1968–1970 Enrollment in photography courses in extension education at New York University taught by Sandra Weiner and Cornell Capra. Photographs of the construction of the World Trade Center. First photograph published in the photography magazine Infinity. Participation in the civil rights and anti-war movement.
  
• 1968 European travel. Meeting with Robert Frank in the custom photo lab of Sid Kaplan.
  
• 1969 Death of father on the farm in Wisconsin.
  
• 1970 Birth of daughter Anne Holloway in New York City. Summer spent in Madison.
  
• 1971–1974 Sabbatical leave, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  
• 1972–present Beginning of a series of guest lectures at universities that will include University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina, Florida State University, North Carolina State University, University of Montana, University of Groningen, University of Windsor, University of Nebraska, American University, University of Nevada, Gettysburg College, University of Florida, Pennsylvania State University, University of Georgia, University of Missouri, San Diego State University, Marquette University, Western Michigan University, and Indiana University.
  1973–present Exhibition of photographs in solo exhibits and group shows, most recently solo exhibits at the Steenbock Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and the Ploch Art Gallery at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts. Exhibit of photographs at the biannual PhotoMidwest juried exhibition at the Porter Butts Gallery at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, and at the James Watrous Gallery in the Overture Center for the Arts.
  
• 1974–1982 Relocation to Providence, Rhode Island. Teaching at Brooklyn College, Boston University, and Boston College.
  
• 1977–present Manuscripts and photographs are archived at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
  
• 1983 Return to the Midwest, accepting a professorship at Northern Illinois University. Paul J. Clark begins printing the black and white photographs.
  
• 1983–2000 Photographs along the roads and byways of DeKalb County.
  
• 1985 Delegate, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Tour, People’s Republic of China, Eisenhower Foundation.
  
• 1986 Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  
• 1987 Marriage of daughter Laura to William Flesch. Birth of grandsons Daniel and Julian in 1996 and 2000.
  
• 1990–present Writing and publication of several autobiographical and ethnographic books with photographs: Journey to a Far Place, For the Time Being, Borderland, Where Yet the Sweet Birds Sing, Once Again the Wonder, Of Time and Place, and Tales from the Middle Border.
  
• 1991 Marriage to Solveig Schavland Holmes, DeKalb, Illinois.
  
• 1992 Starts photographing with medium format camera.
  
• 1993 Canterbury Visiting Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
  
• 1998 Retirement from Northern Illinois University.
  
• 1999 Preservation of the family farm, with brother Ralph, following the practices of a sustainable agriculture. Death of mother.
  
• 2000 Infusions begin for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
  
• 2001 A journal is kept for the year, documenting the illness, and photographs are taken at the farm. Move to Madison, Wisconsin.
  
• 2003 Photographs of the ruins and artifacts at the farm.
  
• 2005 Founding of the independent press Borderland Books for the publication of craft quality books.
  
• 2005–2006 Member of the Madison Sesquicentennial photography project, organized by the Center for Photography at Madison, culminating in the exhibition “Madison at 150.”
  
• 2006 Publication of Of Time and Place: A Farm in Wisconsin, a history of the family farm based on a century of family photographs.
• 2008 Publication of a 40-year retrospective of photographing, Things Once Seen.