Gowin created deeply intimate gelatin silver portraits of his own family in rural Virginia with the same tender documentary approach and rich tonal contrasts seen in this Mann photograph. His images of his wife Edith and their children blur the line between personal document and fine art portraiture in a way that closely mirrors Mann's Immediate Family series.

Ross works in black and white gelatin silver prints to create quietly contemplative portraits of children and ordinary Americans that carry the same emotional weight and intimacy as this image of Jessie. Her straightforward yet psychologically rich approach to photographing young subjects shares Mann's ability to convey fleeting childhood presence with tender documentary honesty.

Nixon's long term black and white photographic series documenting his wife and her sisters over decades shares the same intimate domestic focus and rich gelatin silver tonal quality seen in this Mann portrait. His work similarly transforms familiar family subjects into contemplative studies of time, innocence, and the passage of youth.