Something that should be taken into account is that THOSE pictures we see today are edited and color graded by today standards, by people who are aware of Wes A

Something that should be taken into account is that THOSE pictures we see today are edited and color graded by today standards, by people who are aware of Wes Anderson and a lot of other cultural references we all share. Photography is way more than pressing the button and editing/sequencing is a big part of being a photographer. We obviously don't know all the frames contemporary photographers of Vivian Maier had trashed because they didn't fit the aesthetic of those times. Saul Leiter is another examples of that. His color work had been discovered 50 years after being shot. Back in the days B&W photography was all the rage and Color was judged vulgar and restricted to advertising... William Eggleston was the one that conciliate color and art 10 years later in the 60S.