The 100 Most Important People in Photography, 2005

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The 100 Most Important...

Sometimes it's what you know, and sometimes it's who you know. Here are the people you definitely should know.

By American Photo Staff Posted May 17, 2005

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,