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Spotlight :What Happened to the Best Surf Photographer of the '60s?

By David Schonauer   Friday July 25, 2025

Photographer Ron Stoner began shooting for surfing publications in the early-1960s, when he was still a teenager, and quickly rose to the top of his profession. His LSD usage coincided with a plummet into mental illness: “He disappeared from the beaches he once haunted and was eventually declared a missing …

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