Richard Quinney
Richard Quinney has documented the course of a life in books that combines the everyday world of experience with the transcendent dimension of human existence. Chronologically, these works include Journey to a Far Place , For the Time Being , Where Yet the Sweet Birds Sing , Once Again the Wonder , and A Lifetime Burning . His years of photographing, with similar meditative attention, are illustrated in his books Things Once Seen , Once upon an Island , A Sense Sublime , and Diary of a Camera ....See more
Richard Quinney has documented the course of a life in books that combines the everyday world of experience with the transcendent dimension of human existence. Chronologically, these works include Journey to a Far Place , For the Time Being , Where Yet the Sweet Birds Sing , Once Again the Wonder , and A Lifetime Burning . His years of photographing, with similar meditative attention, are illustrated in his books Things Once Seen , Once upon an Island , A Sense Sublime , and Diary of a Camera . He is the founder of the independent press Borderland Books. His life and work are grounded in the generations of family farming in Wisconsin. He has had a career as a professor of sociology in American universities. See less