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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Dance of Death

Here's a fun one right out of the ol' morgue. A Dance of Death alphabet, designed by Hans Holbein the Younger way back in 1526, a time when death seemed to always be near at hand.



Posted by Thomas Haller Buchanan at 8:31 PM
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My name is Thom Buchanan. I'm an artist and photographer. People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years. I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.
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