What is more depressing is the fact that such films seem to be part of a wider trend towards the mainstream depiction of women as highly sexualised bait and prey: meat, as Roth had it.
For our current cycle, we selected these cities because there are communities that are underserved; whose national profile has been significantly shaped by what is mostly a false "mainstream" depiction, e.g. Detroit as a racially torn apart city full of danger and abandoned; Appalachia as backwoods, or hillbilly; etc.
"Brideshead" remains, undisputedly, a milestone in the history of mainstream depictions of homoerotic life.
A few years ago, such mainstream depictions of Latinos would have been unthinkable.
Aidan Dunne, for example, reviewing the exhibition in Dublin in 2007, recognised how a single blonde model, "unmistakably" herself, in 1966 led Freud to push "the bounds of decorum in terms of mainstream depictions of the human body considered not as a generic type but as, to use his own term, a 'naked portrait'".
Beall has also taken hundreds of images of women breastfeeding, while Gabi Gregg's "fatkini" gallery shows fat women, confident in swimwear, and some NSFW (not safe for work) projects that show ordinary people naked, in images designed to counter idealised mainstream depictions of nudity.
The weight loss and health industries have collided head-on with the tech world, with even the most mainstream depictions of startup life pitching products to help people stay trim and out of the doctor's office.
While it was hoped that this imagery would offer an 'alternative' to mainstream depictions or indeed offer older women a presence amidst the much noted absence of images of older women, the brief left it open to the professional photographers recruited to the project and to the participants themselves to direct the representations.
She suspects more mainstream depictions of kinky sex are to thank for helping kickstart the conversation.
If you look at mainstream depictions of kink, like 50 Shades, they are mostly male dom, female sub.
Think about it -- how many mainstream depictions of LGBT women experiencing their sexuality for the first time do we ever really see?
