Was googling a few names and this article from American Photo popped up…which I remember reading back in 2005.  It’s interesting to see now, 3 years later. 

By no means am I going to try and update the list (because I don’t have, oh, 8 spare hours) but I am a little perplexed (as I was before) by the number of stock agencies on the list and the presence of Getty Images at number 1.  Now that they have been purchased by a private equity firm, how far do they drop?

Where would the bloggers fit on this list…the Conscientious, APE’s, Sartorialist’s of the world?  The Tim Barber’s?

1 Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein, Getty Images
2 Annie Leibovitz, photographer
3 VII Photo Agency: John Stanmeyer, Lauren Greenfield, Alexandra Boulat, James Nachtwey, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv, Christopher Morris, and Joachim Ladefoged
4 Kevin Mazur, wireimage.com
5 Michelle McNally, The New York Times
6 Hans P. Kraus Jr., dealer
7 Patrick Demarchelier, photographer
8 Michele Stephenson and MaryAnne Golon, Time
9 Graydon Carter, Susan White, and David Friend, Vanity Fair
10 Kathy Ryan, The New York Times Magazine
11 Dirck Halstead, digitaljournalist.org
12 Terry Richardson, photographer
13 Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, photographers
14 Chris Johns, National Geographic
15 Peter MacGill, Pace/MacGill Gallery
16 Seamus Conlan*, Marcel Saba, and JP Pappis, independent photo agents
17 Bonnie Fuller, American Media
18 Howard Greenberg, >Howard Greenberg Gallery
19 Elodie Mailliet and Bill Hannigan*19, Corbis Outline
20 Holly Hughes and Jeffrey Roberts*, Photo District News
21 Craig McDean, photographer
22 Denise Bethel, Sotheby’s
23 Joshua Holdeman and Philippe Garner, Christie’s
24 Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, photographers
25 Philip-Lorca diCorcia, photographer
26 Malcolm Daniel, Metropolitan Museum of Art
27 David LaChapelle, photographer
28 Michael Thompson, photographer
29 Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
30 Anne Wilkes Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
31 Benedikt Taschen, Taschen Books
32 Cindy Sherman, photographer
33 Gregory Crewdson, photographer
34 Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art
35 Willis Hartshorn, International Center of Photography
36 Barbara Kruger, artist
37 Robert Polidori, photographer
38 Mark Seliger, photographer
39 Ingrid Sischy, writer
40 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, photographer
41 Michael Wilson, collector
42 Gerhard Steidl, Steidl Books
43 Randy Bauer and Frank Griffin, Gary Morgan, and Frank Regis Rohmer, paparazzi overlords
44 Art Streiber, photographer
45 Ellen von Unwerth, photographer
46 Pascal Dangin, Box Studios
47 Hugh Milstein and Jon Moeller, Digital Fusion
48 Andres Serrano, photographer
49 Taryn Simon, photographer
50 Fred Ritchin, PixelPress

51 James White, photographer
52 Daniel Power, powerHouse Books
53 David Fahey, Fahey/Klein Gallery
54 Martin Schoeller, photographer
55 Thomas Walther, collector
56 Sam Shahid, creative director
57 Vicki Goldberg, writer
58 Jeffrey Fraenkel, Fraenkel Gallery
59 Joel-Peter Witkin, photographer
60 Eugene Richards, photographer
61 Ruven Afanador, photographer
62 Eric Himmel, Harry N. Abrams
63 Tom Mangelsen, photographer
64 Stephen Crowley, Tyler Hicks, and Vincent Laforet, New York Times
65 Stephen Cohen, Stephen Cohen Gallery
66 Mary Ellen Mark, photographer
67 Bonni Benrubi, Bonni Benrubi Gallery
68 Gilles Peress, photographer
69 Larry Fink, photographer
70 Mario Sorrenti, photographer
71 Harry Benson, photographer
72 Larry Sultan, photographer
73 Manfred Heiting, collector
74 Michael Sand, Bulfinch Press
75 Kimberly Ayl, Icon International
76 Norman Jean Roy, photographer
77 David Burnett, photographer
78 Nina Berman, photographer
79 Anne Kennedy and Jim Moffat, Art + Commerce
80 John Loengard, writer
81 David Hume Kennerly, photographer
82 Michael Mattis, collector
83 Brigitte Lacombe, photographer
84 Bruce Weber, photographer
85 Geoffrey Katz, Creative Photographers Inc.
86 Stephen Shore, photographer
87 Dennis Freedman, W
88 Henry Buhl, collector
89 Steven Meisel, photographer
90 Charles Ommanney, photographer
91 Deborah Willis, professor
92 Tim Wride, No Strings Foundation
93 Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies
94 Doug Lloyd, Lloyd & Company
95 Stephen Frailey, School of Visual Arts
96 Paul Jasmin, photographer
97 Joel Sternfeld, photographer
98 Yossi Milo, Yossi Milo Gallery
99 William Hunt, Ricco/Maresca Gallery
100 Mike Gallagher, Gallagher Gallery & Archive