Evans worked alongside Lange during the Great Depression documenting rural American families in gelatin silver prints with the same unflinching social realism and compositional directness seen in this image of a family on the road in Texas.

Parks created powerful black and white documentary photographs of American families and communities experiencing poverty and hardship, sharing Lange's commitment to using photography as a vehicle for social commentary and human dignity.

As a fellow Farm Security Administration photographer, Lee documented rural American families across Texas and the broader South using gelatin silver prints that capture the same intimate, socially conscious portrait style present in this specific work by Lange.