Here comes the sun: Beach bodies in 1970s Los Angeles – in pictures

In 1975 Tod Papageorge made a cross-America trip that ended on the beaches of Los Angeles. There, taken by the blinding light, he produced some of his first medium-format photographs. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles to expand on those first pictures and, in 1981 and 1988, on shorter visits, added yet again to this body of work. At The Beach by Tod Papageorge is available to buy through Stanley Barker. All photographs: Tod Papageorge