Man Ray was a Modernist artist who photographed himself and fellow artists in their studios using gelatin silver prints, creating iconic black and white self portraits that blend fine art practice with photographic documentation in the same spirit as Brancusi.

Weston worked extensively in gelatin silver print photography to document artists, sculptors, and creative environments with a Modernist sensibility, producing stark black and white images that carry the same sense of artistic self reflection and studio atmosphere.

Abbott created gelatin silver print portraits of Modernist artists and sculptors in their working environments during the same era as Brancusi, capturing subjects within their creative spaces with the same documentary yet fine art quality present in this self portrait.