Abstract
Richard Quinney ranks among the noted criminologists of the twentieth century, especially among progressives. He is also a photographer of note, drawing on scenes from his native Wisconsin to reflect his deep inner life. Things once seen, published in 2009 by Borderland Books, is a 40‐year retrospective of his photographic work. It is a deeply religious work that celebrates the requirements of life lived by a “radical realism”. In June 2009 Doctor Quinney was presented with the Sullivan–Tifft Vanguard Award at the annual meeting of the Justice Studies Association.
Notes
1. An exhibit of Quinney’s photographs “Once Upon An Island: New York Photographs, 1968–1970” will be on display at the Price Tower Art Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 13 May to 11 September 2011. See http://pricetower.org/exhibitions/ for details.
2. Since first writing this piece I learned that John Irwin died in January 2010. I had planned to send him a copy of the final version, as I do whenever I mention a person in a somewhat judgmental way. For John’s contribution to criminology see http://www.convictcriminology.org/index.html.
3. The critics Austin T. Turk, Susan Guarino‐Ghezzi, Susan L. Caulfield and Randall G. Shelden met on 8 November 2001. The presentations were published in Contemporary Justice Review, 5(4), 2002.
4. Those interested might like to know there is a Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, a sub‐division of The Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, whose research interests involve “collecting a series of new data sets in the form of ethnographies of daily life initiated in communities and workplaces”. Retrieved January 5, 2010, from http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/research/project-detail/122.
5. As co‐founder and then Editor‐in‐Chief of Contemporary Justice Review for its first 11 years I received and read multitudinous manuscripts, always those being readied as articles for publication. If I may I’ll say that none came in, ever, better prepared and ready to go to press than Richard Quinney’s. When it saw them coming, my blue pencil happily took a holiday.