Mass-produced merchandise has always made some people 
uneasy in its prostitute aspect. Jean Genet’s The Balcony  is a 
play on this theme of society as a brothel environed by violence 
and horror. The avid desire of mankind to prostitute itself 
stands up against the chaos of revolution. The brothel remains 
firm and permanent amidst the most furious changes. In a 
word, photography has inspired Genet with the theme of the 
world since photography as a Brothel-without-Walls.

     Nobody can commit photography alone. It is possible to 
have at least the illusion of reading and writing in isolation, but 
photography does not foster such attitudes. If there is any 
sense in deploring the growth of corporate and collective art 
forms such as the film and the press, it is surely in relation to 
the previous individualist technologies that these new forms 
corrode. Yet if there had been no prints or woodcuts and