Walker Evans worked alongside Lange during the Great Depression documenting rural American poverty and social conditions through stark gelatin silver prints. His portraits of Southern sharecroppers and tenant farmers share the same unflinching documentary honesty and examination of American labor and class hierarchy visible in this plantation overseer portrait.

Gordon Parks created powerful black and white documentary photographs examining race, power, and social inequality in mid 20th century America, particularly in the American South. His portraits confront systemic oppression and labor exploitation with the same direct and humanizing photojournalistic approach Lange employs in this image.

Russell Lee was a Farm Security Administration photographer who documented rural American communities and agricultural labor conditions across the South and Midwest using gelatin silver prints. His close observational portraits of workers and authority figures within American agrarian social structures closely mirror the subject matter and documentary style of this Lange photograph.