Doisneau shared Cartier-Bresson's passion for capturing spontaneous, poetic moments of everyday life in black and white gelatin silver prints, with a similarly humanist eye for the rhythms of ordinary people in European urban and street settings.

Ronis worked in the same French humanist documentary tradition using black and white film to record tender and precise slices of Mediterranean and European daily life, producing tonal silver prints with the same luminous warmth and compositional elegance seen in this Tivoli piece.

Berengo Gardin is the closest Italian counterpart to Cartier-Bresson, creating masterful black and white documentary street photographs of Italian life that share the same decisive compositional instinct, rich monochrome tonal range, and deeply humanist observation of everyday Italian scenes.