This long-awaited new edition is expanded and completely revised, featuring 80 new photographs, some previously unpublished. Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) created breathtaking artworks that challenged traditional views of painting, sculpture, and architecture. This lavish photo book is the first comprehensive publication on their oeuvre since Christo's passing in May 2020. It also serves as a prelude to their final major project—the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, scheduled for fall 2021. The book offers a wealth of photographs and studio snapshots from 1949 to 2020, including private images that provide an intimate look behind the scenes of their monumental installations, which captivated audiences for decades. Alongside images of the artists at work, it documents all their major projects. Matthias Koddenberg, an art historian and close friend of the artists, dedicated years to compiling over 300 images for this volume. These include contributions from companions and friends, as well as previously unpublished photographs from the artists' estate. Together, they narrate the extraordinary story of the couple's artistic collaboration and their five-decade-long partnership.
Jeanne-Claude Book order (chronological)


Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Fabric monuments In the summer of 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with a team of hundreds of workers. Using fabric materials has become a famous tradition for Christo and landscape projects in the USA, Japan, and Australia and urban projects such as the Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris have established them as the most extraordinary artist couple of the age. This in-depth survey of their unusual work is illustrated with absorbing photographs by Wolfgang Volz. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series