Photograph credits in LaTeX

For my thesis I made a "copyright permissions" section, using a combination of bibunits, bibentry and cleveref. I made a bibliography style file that displays the copyright field (only for this list--the main bibliography can use a normal style). You can see the sources for all the details, but in the end, you enter a list like:

\begin{itemize}
 \item \Cref{fig:coupling,fig:capnet} reproduced with permission from:\\*
    \bibentry{koch_charge-insensitive_2007}.
 \item \Cref{sample,schematic,fig:vrabimap,fig:extjc,fig:exp,fig:relim,%
    fig:hetvsphtcnt,fig:arrows,%
    fig:linecuts,fig:powsweep,fig:hirelim3,fig:wolverine} 
     reproduced (with altered formatting) with permission from:\\*          
     \bibentry{bishop_nonlinear_2009}.
\end{itemize}

and this produces a list like:

• Figures 2.7 and 2.8 reproduced with permission from:

Jens Koch, Terri M. Yu, Jay Gambetta, A. A. Houck, D. I. Schuster, J. Majer, Alexandre Blais, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Physical Review A 76, 042319 (2007).

Copyright (2007) by the American Physical Society.

• Figures 4.2 to 4.8 and 4.10 to 4.14 reproduced (with altered formatting) with permission from:

Lev S. Bishop, J. M. Chow, Jens Koch, A. A. Houck, M. H. Devoret, E. Thuneberg, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Nature Physics 5, 105–109 (2009).

Copyright © 2009, Nature Publishing Group.

Attempt #1: Use tocloft

With the tocloft package you can create your own List of ... list. Here is a nice tutorial. You can define a \PictureAuthor{John Doe} command to issue in each figure caption. However, in the lists of figures there will be no links to the authors (as they will be lested in a separate page).

Attempt #2": Use bibtopic

You can use the bibtopic package to generate a reference list only for the authors, and use the cite{John Doe} command in each picture caption. Using the backref option of the hyperref package, in the list of references (generated by \bibliography{}), for each of the referenced authors a list of the picture will be appended.