Atget devoted his career to documenting the streets and working life of Paris with a similarly unflinching documentary eye, creating monochrome images that preserve the authentic character of urban Parisian environments and their inhabitants.

Model shared Brassaï's commitment to capturing raw, unposed working class and street figures in urban settings using gelatin silver prints, producing mid century documentary photographs with a similarly direct and honest visual approach.

Doisneau worked in the same mid century Parisian documentary tradition as Brassaï, photographing laborers, market workers, and everyday street life using black and white gelatin silver prints that celebrate the authentic human texture of the city.