1970's Chicago Skyline 7 X 10 Photo By Leon Lopez - Type 1

Manuel León López II, age 87, died January 22, 2023, at Cape Cod
Manuel was born August 22, 1935, in Columbus, Ohio,
Following high school graduation, Manuel attended the University of Arizona, During these years, he twice had a summer job as acting editor at a weekly paper in the Tucson area—first for the San Manuel Miner and then the Coolidge Examiner
Back in the United States in the early 1960s, Manuel began his career as a photojournalist. His first position was with International Harvester in Chicago, where he shot picture stories for the company’s two magazines—International Harvester Today, an internal publication for employees, and International Harvester World, an external, public relations-oriented vehicle.
Next, Manuel worked for National Geographic in Washington, D.C., for about three and a half years. In his position as director of photography, While he was there, the magazine also published seven of his own photos. At some point, Manuel also had a stunning picture of a saguaro cactus at sunset published on the back cover of Arizona Highways.
Manuel returned to Chicago in the early 1970s, taking a job as staff photographer for the Chicago Daily News for several years. Then McDougall, who had become director of the Photojournalism program at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, offered him a teaching position. For the next seven years, Manuel taught Photojournalism at the school and nearly completed the course work toward his own master’s degree in Journalism.
But from there he got his final job at the Cape Cod Times, where then Editor in Chief Bill Breisky hired him as photo editor in 1987 and he worked for 20 years, retiring in 2007.

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