Hoyningen-Huene worked in the same mid-century fashion photography world as Lynes, producing elegantly composed images for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar that blended classical aesthetic sensibility with surrealist influences and a refined homoerotic undertone in male figure work.

Horst shared Lynes's circle and aesthetic language, producing surrealist-inflected fashion and figure photography with dramatic sculptural lighting, classical compositional elegance, and a sensual treatment of the male and female form that closely mirrors Lynes's signature style.

List produced surrealist-influenced black and white photography of male nudes and classical figures with the same combination of literary sophistication, avant-garde sensibility, and openly homoerotic gaze that defines Lynes's most celebrated work.