But his profound influence on other photographers, most famously on Diane Arbus, derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels: coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely. No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City.Weegee's first book, Naked City (1945), was a runaway success and made him a celebrity who suddenly had assignments from Life and Vogue. By the publication of his second book, Weegee's People (1946), he had cut the wires to his police radio and had begun to photograph the furred and bejeweled grandes dames at the Metropolitan Opera as well as his beloved street people. Naked Hollywood (1953) and Weegee by Weegee (1961) feature portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khruschev, and Liberace -- many of them viewed through the distorted lens of his Weegee-scope.Regarded as some of the most powerful images of twentieth-century photography, Weegee's work now resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

    

    

    It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.

    Originally published as six volumes from 1935-39, Essays in Musical Analysis reappeared in 1981 as two paperback volumes, Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works and Concertos and Choral Works, along with a supplementary volume, Chamber Music. Now available in new paperback editions, these three volumes contain the most famous works of musical criticism in the English language.Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works contains 115 essays which cover Beethoven's overtures and symphonies, including Tovey's famous study of the Ninth Symphony, all of Brahms' overtures and symphonies, eleven of Haydn's symphonies, six of Mozart's, three each of Schubert's, Schumann's, and Sibelius', and four of Dvor k's, as well as many other works by composers from Bach to Vaughan Williams.Concertos and Choral Works contains essays on fifty concertos, including nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertory from Bach's for two violins to Walton's for the viola. It also presents essays on Bach's B minor Mass, Beethoven's Mass in D, Brahms' and Verdi's Requiems, and Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons, along with other famous works.Chamber Music contains some of Tovey's most important essays, including those on Bach's "Goldberg" Variations and Art of Fugue, and on key works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms. Taken together, the three volumes reveal Tovey's unequalled acuteness, common sense, clarity, and wit, making ideal reading for anyone interested in the classical music repertory.