Mapplethorpe famously photographed Lisa Lyon himself and shared Newton's obsession with the sculpted human body as fine art, using stark black and white gelatin silver prints with dramatic lighting to elevate physical form into classical portraiture.

Ritts created black and white fashion and portrait photography celebrating the athletic and sculpted human form with the same compositional sophistication and dramatic lighting found in Newton's work, blurring the line between commercial and fine art photography.

Lynes brought a fine art sensibility to portrait photography of idealized physical forms using gelatin silver prints with bold lighting contrasts, sharing Newton's approach of treating the body as a sculptural subject worthy of artistic reverence.