TAKI 183

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Taki 183 (right) at a gallery exhibition

TAKI 183 (* 1953 or 1954) is considered a pioneer of urban graffiti writing .

In New York living Greeks began in the late 1960s, his nickname Taki (diminutive of Dimitrios or Dimitraki; Taki) to write on walls, while he was working as a messenger. The 183 came from his address 183rd Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan .

The New York Times published an article on July 21, 1971 on page 37 about the 17-year-old who was behind the "Taki 183" scribble that was posted on many walls in the city and that caused a chain reaction. Even before the article was published, this was understood as an invitation to tag the walls of the city with tags consisting of the nickname + a number x. According to Taki 183 in the article, Julio 204 was already active before TAKI 183 , but was arrested and stopped. Today it is speculated that Julio 204 did not achieve this fame due to the low activity, exclusively in its immediate residential area.

Until the 1970s, there was almost no graffiti in New York, either on the subway or on the streets. This had changed fundamentally since TAKI 183. You don't have to be a great athlete or a well-taught student, you can be a great writer and everyone will get to know you and talk about it. he described the motivation. The more imitators the idea found, the more this effect disappeared. Taki himself has already been present in numerous places. This saturation caused TAKI 183 to cease operations at the end of the 1980s

literature

  • Mervyn Kurlansky, Jon Naar, Norman Mailer: The Faith of Graffiti . Praeger Publishers, New York 1974, ISBN 0-275-43660-8 .
  • Style: Writing from the underground. (R) evolutions of Aerosol Linguistics. Stampa Alternativa in Association with IGTimes, 1996, ISBN 88-7226-318-2 .
  • Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper: Subway Art. Henry Holt & Co, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8050-0678-8 .
  • Roger Gastman, Ian Sattler, Darin Rowland: Freight Train Graffiti . Harry N Abrams, 2006, ISBN 0-8109-9249-3 .
  • Jon Naar: The Birth of Graffiti . Prestel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3796-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ed Boland Jr .: FYI In: The New York Times . June 15, 2003. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
  2. ^ New York Times. July 21, 1971, quoted from 'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals. ( Memento of May 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ Interview with TAKI 183 at http://ilovegraffiti.de/ Interview with TAIK183 [GERMAN 01/2010 ]. Retrieved September 12, 2018.

Web links

Website of TAKI183

personal data
SURNAME TAKI 183
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek artist, pioneer of urban graffiti in New York
DATE OF BIRTH 1953 or 1954