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Thomas Benton Hollyman (December 7, 1919 – November 14, 2009) was an American photographer. Graydon Carter, managing editor of ''Vanity Fair'', included Hollyman in his round-up of “ photographic greats” in his magazine’s Editor’s Letter, January 2005, titled “ The Shots Seen Around the World.” These were photographers he wrote, whose “ travels help form the patina of their characters and the grist for their tales.” Although Hollyman worked primarily as a photographer for most of his career, his quest for new challenges also took him to cinema. In 1963, working with the film-maker and British stage director Peter Brook, he served as director of photography for the big-screen version of ''Lord of the Flies,'' learning to operate a movie camera a short while before the film began production in Puerto Rico. Brook selected him as a total unknown. ==Education & Starting Chance== The son of a Presbyterian pastor, Hollyman was born in Denver, Colorado on December 7, 1919, to a family who were descendents of Missouri and Texas settlers. He was a (Sons of the American Revolution ), the family having originally settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1644. After moving to Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1919, where his father became pastor or the Presbyterian Church, Hollyman began publishing a school paper in the sixth grade. Hollyman who said that he “always wanted to be journalist ,” learned to set type as a printer’s devil at the (''Standard Herald'' ) in exchange for lessons in news-writing. He also was the Bandmaster and an original member of Don Essig’s Novelty Music Show an experience he wrote about in an article for May 31, 1958, ''New Yorker'' titled” How Culture Came to Sand Springs, Oklahoma.” In high school as a senior, he worked his way to Europe on a German steamship, playing in a five-piece jazz band, the Varsity Club Orchestra. Upon arriving in Europe he bicycled 1400 miles from London to Edinburgh and back. While attending college at Central Missouri State University, in Warrensburg, Missouri, .he freelanced for The Daily Star-Journal and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, working with a Speed Graphic camera. On a fluke, he was asked by the Kansas City Journal to take a photograph of a brother and sister who were separated as children but got married while unaware of their kinship. The photo of the young woman weeping in her doorway , he later recalled, was his first published photograph, “smeared over the front page of the Journal, syndicated nationally and ending up in Life Magazine, made me wince at my shameful effort even though it launched my career.” Hollyman graduated from Central Missouri State University in 1940 with a degree in English, economics and social studies. His interest in journalism then took him to the University of Missouri where he received a Master’s degree scholarship where he was one of the first two students to major in photojournalism. His first job was with the Chicago Bureau of Acme Newspictures, the forerunner of the wire service photography division of the Associated Press. He later became a staff photographjer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, where he worked until World War II. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Hollyman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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