Evans worked alongside Lange during the Great Depression documenting rural American poverty and labor through gelatin silver prints with the same unflinching humanistic realism, most notably in his FSA photographs of sharecroppers in the American South.

Parks built a career on social documentary photography that examined working class struggles, poverty, and marginalized laborers in America with the same compassionate and direct black and white photographic approach Lange employed in this piece.

Salgado creates powerful gelatin silver documentary photographs focused on laborers and rural workers in difficult conditions worldwide, sharing Lange's commitment to using photography as a tool for social awareness and human dignity.