Frank's groundbreaking photobook The Americans shares the same street photography sensibility and candid documentary approach as Images à la Sauvette, capturing fleeting unposed moments of everyday life with a humanist eye.

Maier worked in the same street photography tradition as Cartier-Bresson, using a handheld camera to capture spontaneous decisive moments of urban life with remarkable compositional precision and psychological depth.

Winogrand was a direct heir to the decisive moment philosophy, prowling streets with a 35mm camera to capture unscripted human interactions with the same instinctive timing and geometric visual awareness central to Images à la Sauvette.