Gowin similarly used gelatin silver prints to document his own family in intimate domestic settings, capturing childhood and everyday life with the same luminous tonal quality and tender, poetic sensibility seen in this image of a child absorbed in quiet ritual.

Ross works in black and white fine art photography with a deeply humanistic and intimate approach to portraying children and adolescents, sharing Mann's ability to transform ordinary moments of youth into timeless, emotionally resonant images.

Levitt spent decades photographing children absorbed in unselfconscious everyday activities, using black and white photography to render domestic and street life with a nostalgic, poetic quality that closely parallels the mood and subject matter of this work.