{"value"=>"<p>The photographs contain personal and professional images of Otto Luening from throughout his life, both formal and informal, and with friends, colleagues, and family. They also hold images of particular events and time periods. Most family photographs are in Series III.</p> <p>Early photos of Luening date from 1900 to the 1920s. Professional portraits of him date from the late-1920s to the 1990s. Major time periods of Luening's career with coverage here include his experiences in Zürich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach (1918-1920); his work in Chicago and at the Eastman School during the 1920s; the University of Arizona (early 1930s); Bennington College at various times; and his career at Columbia University and the Electronic Music Studio with Vladimir Ussachevsky, as well as with other colleagues (1950s to the 1970s).</p> <p>Colleagues and friends pictured with Luening include Ussachevsky, Chou Wen-Chung, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Virgil Thomson, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Downey, Leonard Bernstein, Francis Thorne, David Diamond, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Ernst Bacon, Elliott Carter, Leslie Bassett, Ernst Krenek, Danielle Woerner, and Alan Carter.</p> <p>The series also holds photographs of events such as lectures, meetings, symposia, concerts, work with students, award ceremonies, and New York Public Library exhibitions.</p> <p>There is a small set of formal and informal images of Luening with his first wife, Ethel Codd Luening, but there are far more with his second wife, Catherine Brunson Luening. These are voluminous and include family events, vacations, and professional portraits of her with Otto Luening.</p>"}