Strand similarly used straight photography to find abstract geometric compositions in urban environments, creating platinum and palladium prints that emphasized stark formal relationships between light, shadow, and architectural structure.

Sheeler worked in both photography and painting to distill urban and industrial subjects into pure geometric abstraction, sharing Stieglitz's monochromatic sensibility and modernist interest in finding abstract order within constructed environments.

Moholy-Nagy explored urban geometry through photography with a similarly abstract eye, using dramatic angles and tonal contrasts in black and white to transform architectural and cityscape subjects into modernist compositional studies.