McCafferty in his studio in San Pedro, 1975.

McCafferty’s lifeguard crew at the beach at Hollister Ranch, CA, 1987.

Jay and Ellen McCafferty with Ellen’s first dog, 1978.
Framed Polaroid.

McCafferty in Point Fermin, San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca. 1968.

McCafferty in Hollister Ranch, 1986.

McCafferty working with his Sony Portapak, the first portable video camera (introduced 1967), ca. 1972.

Jay and Ellen McCafferty with their dog Matter in front of their home in San Pedro, 1985.

McCafferty at the dining table in Ellen’s sister’s house, San Francisco, 1980s.

Polaroid of McCafferty with his dogs, Mr. Wright and Sally, in his studio, 1980s.

McCafferty and his mentor and friend Tony DeLap at UC Irvine, CA, 1972.

McCafferty with friend and fellow lifeguard John Burich, who appears in the photobook Bicep (1974), Cabrillo Beach, c. 1970s.

In this photomontage from the mid-1980s, McCafferty demonstrates step by step the process of his solar burn paintings.

Jay and Ellen McCafferty in a hotel room in the early 1980s.

McCafferty working under the sun on the roof of his studio on 6th Street in San Pedro, late 1970s.

McCafferty solar burning, c. 1972.

McCafferty at work on video in Harbor City, Los Angeles, 1972.

McCafferty, late-1990s.

McCafferty teaching ceramics at Harbor College in Wilmington, late 1970s.

McCafferty working on Between in his studio, ca. 1980.

McCafferty working on a solar burn painting on his property at Hollister Ranch, CA, early 2000s.