Weston similarly used gelatin silver prints to isolate fragments of the human body with radical cropping, transforming intimate details of flesh and form into modernist abstractions that carry the same sensual and monochrome precision found in this portrait.

Cunningham created strikingly intimate black and white photographic portraits that focused on close cropped bodily details, sharing the same modernist sensibility and ability to elevate a single fragment into an iconic and elegant image.

Strand pioneered American modernist photography by using sharp focus and tight framing in gelatin silver prints to create portraits of quiet intensity, mirroring the intimate cropping and formal elegance that defines this close study of O'Keeffe.