I definitely appreciate my work (photographs) being cited.
Though it depends on the category [and mostly true for nature/travel photography] but I think much of a photographer's work is finding a great subject. And I guess that's one of the main differences between photography and painting. It could be the reason that why photography is overlooked, all the effort is not in the photo, but I think for painting, most of the effort is seen in the painting. Though as I'm not a painter, I don't know how true is that.