Boltanski similarly uses degraded and destroyed photographic imagery to explore mortality, identity, and the haunting presence of absent figures. His work shares Gordon's preoccupation with the tension between preservation and erasure, often implicating the viewer in an unsettling confrontation with memory and death.

Sherman's conceptual photographic practice similarly interrogates the collapse between self and constructed identity, exploring how celebrity imagery and cultural archetypes shape personal identity. Her appropriation of iconic visual personas directly parallels Gordon's merging of viewer and rock music idol through the reflective surface.

Warhol's repeated use of celebrity portraiture and rock music iconography, particularly his silkscreen works that deliberately degrade and distort photographic source material, closely mirrors Gordon's themes of obsession, mortality, and the commodification of iconic figures. Both artists use appropriated imagery to interrogate the boundary between idolization and destruction.