Introducing Your Merchants Gordon Skinner Coronado photographer and resident
Coronado residents meet Gordon Skinner born and raised on the island. He started photography as a hobby after illness and became a freelance shooter. Skinner sold a high school boathouse shot to the Hotel del Coronado, then joined as staff photographer, handling publicity, society events and celebrity visits for nearly nine years.
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Photographer Mr Skinner Builds Studio Career and Hopes for Marriage
The article profiles Gordon Skinner a self taught photographer who shoots and processes his own work and manages a studio at 1202 Orange Avenue. He works at a hotel during rush periods and employs assistants in the lab. Skinner served as a civilian photographer for the Navy at North Island during the war and photographed aircraft and cataloguing fighters. He recently acquired stroboscopic lights to capture action shots of children and balances studio and hotel duties. He admires Ingrid Bergman and actor Tracy, and hints at plans to marry while pursuing hobbies like golf and flying.
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Ingrid Bergman
Tracy
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