Calle similarly uses conceptual photography to examine tourism, observation, and the constructed relationship between travelers and iconic sites, blending documentary practice with cultural critique in serialized photographic works.

Baldessari shares Simmons' conceptual approach to photography as a medium for interrogating how images and cultural landmarks are consumed and represented, using serialized structures to examine visual conventions around monuments and iconic imagery.

Sherman, a close contemporary of Simmons within the Pictures Generation, similarly uses staged and conceptual color photography to examine how cultural narratives and representations are constructed, questioning the authenticity of familiar visual experiences.