Thomas Benton Hollyman

Thomas Benton Hollyman (December 7, 1919 – November 14, 2009) was an American photojournalist who created travel photographs for magazines and advertising campaigns.

Graydon Carter, managing editor of Vanity Fair, in his magazine’s Editor’s Letter, January 2005, titled "The Shots Seen Around the World", described Hollyman as a photographer whose "travels help form the patina of their characters and the grist for their tales."

Hollyman also worked as the Director of Photography for the 1963 film Lord of the Flies

The son of a Presbyterian pastor, Hollyman was born in Denver, Colorado on December 7, 1919. In 1919, the family moved to Warrensburg, Missouri, where his father became a church. In the sixth grade, Hollyman published a school paper. Hollyman later said that he "always wanted to be journalist". When he was older, Hollyman did typesetting at the Standard Herald newspaper in Warrensburg in exchange for lessons in news-writing. His school activities including being a bandmaster and a member of a novelty music show.

As a high school senior, he worked his way to the United Kingdom on a German steamship, playing in a five-piece jazz band. Once in the UK, Hollyman bicycled from London to Edinburgh and back.

While attending college at Central Missouri State University, Hollyman freelanced for The Daily Star-Journal and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, working with a Speed Graphic camera. On one job the Kansas City Journal sent him to photograph a married brother and sister. The young couple, separated at birth, did not realize that they were siblings until after their marriage. The photo of the young woman weeping in her doorway was Hollyman's first published photograph. He later remarked that the photo, "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."

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