Weston created strikingly similar black and white fine art still life photography of organic forms like vegetables and shells, elevating everyday subjects into surrealist and formally precise compositions that share the same contemplative sensuality found in Fruta prohibido.

Cunningham's black and white still life and botanical photography transforms natural subjects into mysterious, formally elegant surrealist images that echo the symbolic and dreamlike treatment of fruit and organic matter seen in this silver print.

As a fellow Mexican fine art photographer working in black and white, Iturbide shares Álvarez Bravo's surrealist sensibility and ability to charge ordinary objects and scenes with deep symbolic and cultural meaning through precise tonal photography.