04.12 Imai Norio, série Daily Portrait series, en cours depuis 1979 | ongoing since 1979.
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What these forms [the collection and the series] indicate, and what photography recalls, wrought by multiplicity right down to the film, is the simple fact that the image is never alone.1 1 - André Gunthert, “L’objet sans qualité,” La Recherche photographique, special “Collection, série” issue, No. 10 (June 1991): 12.

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