Cunningham's black and white botanical photographs share Mapplethorpe's precise, minimalist approach to capturing flowers with sculptural elegance and fine art sensibility. Her close up studies of magnolias and calla lilies exhibit the same serene isolation and tonal mastery seen in Parrot Tulip.

Weston's gelatin silver prints of natural forms demonstrate the same sharp focus, stark minimalism, and elevation of organic subjects into refined fine art photography. His treatment of peppers and shells parallels Mapplethorpe's reverent, formally composed approach to botanical subjects.

Blossfeldt's meticulously detailed black and white photographs of plant forms share the same botanical precision and sculptural quality found in Mapplethorpe's floral work. His images treat flowers and stems as formal artistic subjects rendered with extraordinary clarity and a minimalist aesthetic.