Weston's precise gelatin silver prints share the Bechers' devotion to formal clarity and tonal depth in black and white photography, often treating industrial and natural forms with the same cool, systematic objectivity seen in this steel plant documentation.

Sheeler dedicated much of his career to photographing and painting American industrial infrastructure such as factories and steel plants, sharing the Bechers' focus on the architectural geometry and monumental presence of industrial structures.

Evans brought the same documentary seriousness and straightforward frontal framing to vernacular and industrial architecture that defines the Bechers' typological approach, producing gelatin silver prints that treat structures as subjects worthy of rigorous visual study.