AUGUST News
- 8/04/2009 — AUGUST welcomes Jeff Tse
- 6/08/2009 — Henry Leutwyler's Full Archive now available through AUGUST
- 4/29/2009 — Art Streiber's Full Archive now available through AUGUST
- 4/6/2009 — Peter Yang's Full Archive now available through AUGUST
- 3/20/2009 — Jake Chessum releases his first book, "Rubbish"
- 3/18/2009 — Tony Duran's Full Archive now available through AUGUST
- 2/27/2009 — AUGUST welcomes Tony Duran
- 2/10/2009 — AUGUST welcomes Jake Chessum
- 11/21/2008 — AUGUST welcomes Henry Leutwyler
- 11/13/2008 — Danielle Levitt releases new book, "We Are Experienced"
- 10/1/2008 — Martin Schoeller releases second monograph: "Female Body Builders"
- 4/1/2008 — AUGUST welcomes Robert Erdmann
- 01/01/2008 — AUGUST profiled in HotShoe magazine
- 12/20/2007 — AUGUST welcomes Danielle Levitt
- 12/01/2007 — AUGUST profiled in American Photo magazine
- 11/1/2007 — AUGUST welcomes Art Streiber
- 6/1/2007 — Announcing AUGUST
Krista Rauschenberg joins AUGUST staff
AUGUST is pleased to announce Krista Rauschenberg has joined the agency. Krista will be the west coast representative for AUGUST working directly with clients and photographers and will be the agency's ambassador to the LA photo community.
Krista Rauschenberg has been working in the industry in various forms for over a decade. She began her career as a wardrobe stylist and from there moved into production. She ran Dewey Nicks' studio for several years and worked as an agent with Montage Photographic. Growing up in a family of artists, her love of art and photography developed from a very young age. This admiration and the opportunity to collaborate with artistic people is what drew her to the industry. She has lived in both Europe and Japan. Krista brings valuable insight and knowledge regarding the creative and management challenges faced by photographers today. Throughout her career Krista has had the opportunity to establish a strong network of contacts. The scope of her experience has spanned virtually all aspects of the industry including agent, producer and studio manager.
Robert Erdmann joins AUGUST
Born outside New York. Moved to Norway, haven't stopped traveling since. Studied the history of photography at Princeton. Lived in Milan, London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Currently reside in Los Angeles but always on a plane to New York, London, and Paris. Have lost countless passports.
Magazines: Robert started with covers at THE FACE and ID. He photographs for British Vogue, French Vogue, German Vogue, Australian Vogue, Allure, US Glamour, French Glamour, German Glamour, US GQ, British GQ, Conde Nast Traveller, Instyle.
He started with subjects Iggy Pop, Morrissey, the B52'S, Kenneth Branagh, Kristen Scott Thomas, and has recently photographed Renee Zellweger, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway, Ziyi Zhang.
Robert is represented in the US by Felix Management www.felixus.com
Don Flood joins AUGUST
Don Flood is an accomplished photographer with recent work appearing in the pages of Vanity Fair, Esquire, Elle, and Marie Claire.
Based in both New York and Los Angeles, with his wife and two daughters, he also continues shooting for his regular advertising and fashion clients.
In addition to his unparalleled photography, Don is also an avid runner, and just completed his 4th New York City Marathon.
AUGUST profiled in HotShoe magazine
The last decade has been a time of industry-wide consolidation in the photo agency business. Most of the former independent agencies have been bought up by large corporate agencies such as, Getty Images, Corbis and Jupiter Media. Many believe this is leading to the commoditization of photography as these agencies seek to be the one-stop-shop of photography. These newer corporate agencies are now beholden to the their shareholders forcing them to constantly grow their market share and pricing competition has become ferocious. Many photographers see a continuing reduction in the value placed upon their work. Not only the creative value of the image but also the real monetary value. Couple this with the elimination of personal relationships between agency and photographer, and agency and client, and many feel there has to be a better model.
Enter, August. A new agency solely dedicated to high-end portraiture. Launched in June in New York the agency was co-founded by two industry veterans, Bill Hannigan and Thea Vaughan, both of who have spent time at the big agencies. They met while both were at Corbis and they were together again doing a stint at MediaVast, (parent company of Contour Photos and WireImage), when it was acquired by Getty Images. It was at this point that they decided it was time to do their own thing. When asked if August was launched in reaction to the corporate agencies and their models Hannigan said, "I would be lying if I was to say no. But it is not so much a reaction against the big agencies as our confidence in knowing that there is another way to do things, a model that embraces both the creative and business elements of photography. These things should not be in conflict." (Read entire article...)
AUGUST profiled in American Photo Magazine
In a recently renovated office in Manhattan's East Village, just across from Grace Church on Broadway and 10th Street, Bill Hannigan and Thea Vaughan are building a business that should make the giants of the photo industry quite nervous.
Their new ventures—artist representation agency that bears their names and August, a celibrity-portraiture syndication business—utlize the skills they gained while working for top agencies Corbis and MediaVast, but add a new twist. (Read entire article...)
Art Streiber joins AUGUST
Since 1993 Art Streiber has been a freelance photographer specializing in portrait, entertainment and reportage photography.
Art's editorial clients include Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Portfolio, Entertainment Weekly, W, Wired, C Magazine, West, Men's Journal, Esquire, Elle, Self, Marie Claire, O / The Oprah Magazine, More, and In Style.
Entertainment clients include ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, CNN, Fox Television, TBS, TNT, A&E, Lifetime, Universal Studios, Columbia-TriStar, Dreamworks, Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers Studios.
Recent television work includes the key art for "Big Love," "Sunday Morning Shoot Out," "The Bill Engvall Show" and "House." Art recently also photographed the one sheets for "Knocked Up," "Evan Almighty," "Norbit," "Pineapple Express," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Drillbit Taylor."
Announcing AUGUST
New York-based AUGUST has announced the launch of a new portraiture agency. Founded by Bill Hannigan and Thea Vaughan, AUGUST is dedicated to representing an elite group of portrait photographers who capture the icons and innovators of our time. In a time of industry consolidation and large corporations aiming to be a one- stop-shop of photography AUGUST is solely focused on portraiture with commitment to the highest level of service and expertise for both clients and photographers.
AUGUST is proud to represent the works of Martin Schoeller, Sheryl Nields, Nino Munoz, Jill Greenberg and Brian Bowen Smith.
The website at augustimage.com (designed by James Bareham at The New Cruelty) works with unparalleled simplicity and speed and showcases some of the most high profile personalities in the worldâ — Tom Cruise, Dame Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Fergie, Eva Longoria, Robert DeNiro and Justin Timberlake to name a few and with more subjects added daily.
Bill Hannigan
Bill was most recently the SVP of Content Development for MediaVast
with direct oversight of Contour Photos, (high-end portrait syndication
agency), as well as the artist representation strategy. Bill was the former
head of Corbis Outline, the industry leading portraiture agency. He was
previously the Editorial Director for Corbis. Bill has more than a decade
experience in the photo industry and in 2005 was named at number
nineteen to American Photo's list of the "100 Most Important People in
Photography." Bill has a BFA in photography, has written several books
on photography, and is a contributing writer to 125 magazine.
Thea Vaughan
hea was most recently the VP of Assignment Services at MediaVast. Prior
to MediaVast, Thea created and implemented the Worldwide Artist
Representation division at Corbis, establishing a global network of 6
agents and 22 award-winning photographers. Before joining Corbis, Thea
was a photographers' agent at Bernstein & Andriulli, focusing exclusively
on commercial clients. Prior to Bernstein & Andriulli, Thea was an Account
Manager at advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Thea holds
an MFA in Photography & Sculpture, and has over 10 years of experience
in the Photography Art and Commercial World.
