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 enlarge | Author: Matt Warshaw
Creator: Jeff Divine
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1006922
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 10.5 x 0.9
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.92
ASIN: B00196UBIA
Publication Date: November 9, 2006
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Great book, great photographer, and beautiful/tragic story. November 10, 2007
L. D. Silva (Los Angeles, CA. USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wow! Excellent job Matt Warshaw and Jeff Divine.
The Story of Ron Stoner is beautiful and tragic.
What a great time in surfing, 1965-1968, pre shortboard,
pre-leash and pre-Gidget. Perfect waves with just you and your buddy.
Soul surfing. Imagine being silly and having fun in the lineup, with
maneuvers like "Standing Island pullout", and "The coffin".
Stoner had a great eye. His sense of balance and composition is
evident in every photo. I showed the book to my friend who
is a Hollywood Cinematographer, and he called Stoner's photography,
"Top notch".
The reader may be left with many questions;
Why did Stoner take way too much LSD?
Why didn't Stoner's "friends" help him until it was too late?
Why did the mental hospital give him 50,000 volts 20 times?
Maybe everyone was way too naive...
Though the book was well researched, I wanted more info on
the above questions. Warshaw takes the high road and avoids
blaming anyone. Having grown up and surfed in Orange County in the 70's just after behind Stoner, I wonder if his being an inlander made
him dispensable to his group of "friends".
Perhaps this story sat idle for 30 years due to a collective sense of
loss and guilt. Would Ron Stoner have been treated differently if he was from a beach town instead of being an "inlander" from Pasadena?
I don't know, I wasn't there at the time.
I had such visceral reactions from the elegant and empty waves,
that I found myself moaning when I looked at each photograph,
and my wife accused me of looking at porn.
Man, they had it good back then! Those days of discovery and isolation
of perfect waves are very hard to find these days, if not impssible.
Just like Ron Stoner. Great story.
Dave Silva
Sevenhorses@inbox.com
 It was a gift - but excellent feedback from recipient October 18, 2007
R. Watson
I think the title says it all "It was a gift - but excellent feedback from recipient".
They were happy with the gift!
Incredible July 12, 2007
CM (New Mexico)
So happy to see Ron Stoner's work has survived and is in print. A must for surfing afficiandos.
Photo/Stoner: The Rise, Fall, and Mysterious Disappearance of Surfing's Greatest Photographer April 11, 2007
J. Ferguson (Australia)
Great, beautiful photoes and an excellent read of a social misfit in the same ilk as Van Gough
C L A S S I C April 1, 2007
Paulo Nicolau (Lisboa, Portugal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like Surfing and Photography this is for you, all the classic Stoner photos and much more, Matt Warshaw and Jeff Divine made an amazing book, showing not just the photos but also a deep insight on Stoner's life, when you end seeing the book for the first time you know you did a right thing buying it.
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