Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Limited Edition)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Edition of 1,000

US$ 1,500

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Product photos by Mark Seelen

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In a nutshell

Contributors

The artists

The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude began their collaboration in 1961, and lived in New York City from 1964. Their large-scale projects include Wrapped Coast, Australia, 1968–69; Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1970–72; Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972–76; Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Florida, 1980–83; The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975–85; The Umbrellas, Japan–USA, 1984–91; Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971–95; Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997–98; The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979–2005; and The Floating Piers, 2014–16. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.

The photographer

Wolfgang Volz has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer of their works since 1971. He was also project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees, and was in charge of The Wall – 13,000 Oil Barrels, 1999 and Big Air Package, Gasometer Oberhausen, 2013. His close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

The author

Paul Goldberger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the "Sky Line" column, and the author of several books, including Why Architecture Matters (2009) and Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2010, for TASCHEN). He lectures widely on architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and has taught at both Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

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“This publication is a vibrant homage to the imagination of two artists who have transformed our vision of landscapes across continents.”

— fashion-artmagazine.com, Paris

Zaha Hadid

“The Christo and Jeanne-Claude monograph, with the most engaging images by Wolfgang Volz, vividly documents their process and the profoundly intuitive, provocative nature of their work, where integrity and materiality play a critical role.”