Herb Ritts created strikingly similar black and white gelatin silver portraits that celebrated the human form with the same sculptural precision and high contrast tonal qualities found in Mapplethorpe's Ajitto. His fine art photography shares the same reverence for the body as classical subject matter rendered through meticulous darkroom technique.

George Platt Lynes produced elegant black and white photographic portraits and figure studies that share Mapplethorpe's formal compositional approach and celebration of the human body as fine art subject matter. His gelatin silver prints exhibit the same luminous tonal range and classical sensibility present in this work.

Horst P. Horst crafted meticulously lit black and white photographic portraits with a sculptural quality and dramatic chiaroscuro that closely parallels the formal aesthetic of Mapplethorpe's portrait work. His mastery of gelatin silver printing and his treatment of human subjects as timeless art objects aligns directly with the sensibility of Ajitto.