Bernd Becher co-created the Düsseldorf School of Photography which directly trained Gursky and shared the same systematic documentation of industrial structures and everyday objects with cool detachment and rigorous compositional clarity.

As co-founder of the Becher School alongside her husband, Hilla Becher produced typological studies of industrial and utilitarian subject matter with the same objective precision and formal attention to mundane structures that characterizes this early Gursky work.

A fellow Düsseldorf School photographer and contemporary of Gursky, Struth documents everyday environments and spaces with the same methodical attention to detail, neutral tone, and interest in the quiet drama of ordinary surroundings found in this early photographic work.