Christiane Celle, Be-Poles, and Clic Gallery are proud to present PORTRAITS DE VILLES: THE CITY PORTRAITS COLLECTION. The show will open June 29, 2011 and run through July 31, 2011.

Is New York The World's Capital City?

It will be so at Clic Gallery during the exhibition of twelve City Portraits, achieved by just as many photographers. The exhibition, organized by Paris based independent publishers be-poles, presents a retrospective of their very first collection of photography books. Launched in 2007, be-poles’s City Portraits are embodying years of travel, curiosity and graphic sensitivity. The first titles, Los Angeles, Naples, Rome, and Tokyo, were followed by itineraries in Reykjavik, Dubaï, Paris, Athènes, New York, Pékin, Sarajevo and Moscou. Realized both by established and upcoming talents of various nationalities, all of the books have in common a poetic edge which makes each City Portrait a wordless yet intense, generous, and intelligible story.

Have you ever seen the fog sneak down the mountainside as thousands of phantoms wave their arms ? A sole evocation, a sole image and one is straight away immersed in Reykjavik’s mystery. The twelve selected cities have equally fascinated their portraitist. The collection also appeals by its sober and well-proportioned format. Echoing the famous Moleskine notebooks that every globe-trotter carries with him on his travels, the City Portraits retain a similar charm and elegance.