Avedon similarly photographed fashion icons and models against stark white or minimalist backdrops, creating gelatin silver prints that balance elegance with psychological intensity and tension between subjects. His work shares Penn's ability to transform fashion portraiture into a study of human presence and sophisticated formal composition.

Horst created studio fashion photographs during the same wartime era that similarly exude refined sophistication and dramatic tension through controlled lighting and sculptural posing of models. His black and white prints share Penn's theatrical yet restrained modernist aesthetic and his ability to elevate wartime fashion photography into timeless art.

Lynes produced gelatin silver studio portraits and fashion photographs in mid 20th century America that share Penn's modernist sensibility, warm tonal depth, and emphasis on form and psychological presence within a controlled minimalist setting. His work demonstrates a comparable mastery of light and composition that transforms portraiture into something meditative and timeless.