Man Ray pioneered experimental photographic techniques like rayographs that produce ethereal, dreamlike black and white imagery through the direct manipulation of light, closely mirroring the ghostly abstraction Fuss achieves in this swan piece.

Sugimoto creates luminous black and white photographic works centered on nature and time that carry the same meditative, ethereal quality found in this swan image, using long exposures to dissolve subjects into ghostly light.

Sally Mann uses wet plate collodion and other alternative photographic processes to produce hauntingly beautiful black and white images of nature and animals that share the dreamlike, spectral atmosphere of this swan print.