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Joey Cabell | Ron Stoner | Surfing Heritage

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Ron Stoner North Shore, Hawaii 1960's.

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Laurie Turner (ph. Ron Stoner)

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Ron Stoner Barry Kanaiaupuni, Malibu, 1965 

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Patti McGee (ph. Ron Stoner)

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PHOTOGRAPHY | RON STONER

The life of former SURFER photographer Ron Stoner is as tragic a tale as you’ll find in surfing - a heart-wrenching progression from a shy kid to superstar lensman to drug-addled schizophrenic in less than a decade. But for all the darkness that welled up in the man behind the lens, the moments Stoner managed to capture in front of it told a much different story. A lineup of perfect peelers with just a few friends out. Beautiful people smiling on a sun-drenched beach. Everything in richly-colorful compositions. “He did for Southern California surf breaks what artist David Hockney later did for Southern California swimming pools, and to the same effect,” writes Matt Warshaw in “The History of Surfing”. In many ways, Stoner set the visual tone for SURFER in the early days, capturing six straight cover shots between 1967 and 1968. And in the years since, his images have only become more magnetic, if also somewhat bittersweet—both because of what we know of the man who took them, and because the carefree world that he captured no longer exists, if it ever did at all. He captured a fantasy - see these beautiful images here and here.

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