Eggleston pioneered expressive color photography in America during the same mid century era, bringing a painterly and stylized sensibility to everyday subjects that closely parallels Leiter's lush chromatic approach and compositional elegance.

Bourdin was a visionary fashion photographer working for major publications like Vogue whose bold use of color, sophisticated compositions, and heightened stylization align directly with Leiter's elegant and artful approach to editorial portrait photography.

Haas was a mid century color photography innovator whose impressionistic and painterly photographic style, combining rich saturated tones with artistic composition, reflects the same poetic and elegant visual language seen in Leiter's fashion and portrait work.