{"id":40032,"date":"2016-10-27T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=40032"},"modified":"2016-10-27T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:54:14","slug":"laugh-at-experience-tomoo-arakawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/laugh-at-experience-tomoo-arakawa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Photographer Making Us Dream of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_1.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nJapanese photographer, Tomoo Arakawa, has surprised his audience with a twist on conventional narrative in his latest photobook \u201cLaugh at eXperience\u201d.<br \/>\nThe co-founder of Green Tea Gallery, based between Fukushima and Brooklyn, has shot his newest project in Los Angeles. With the intention of portraying the essence of West Coast living in the internet age, his series of predominantly black and white images are juxtaposed with ambiguous headings.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_3.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nArakawa\u2019s fun series of text gives unexpected titles to his photographs,. Images of skyscrapers, palm trees and cars are accompanied by ramblings like: \u201cmy ganjaman have some nice sess in the West\u201d, \u201cattention! This is the omega\u201d and \u201camerican hot dad\u201d.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_4.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"978\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe unpredictable pairing between photograph and text allows readers to pick the book up at any page, and enjoy the pictures with their humorous titles. Although the text doesn\u2019t seem to follow a storyline, it\u2019s clear from the photography that this is a diary of the artist\u2019s time in LA , and the writing his perception of what was going on around him.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_2-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"977\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"977\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1300\" height=\"977\" \/> Laugh at eXperience. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe publication is available to buy from publishers <a href=\"http:\/\/montezpress.com\/publications#laugh-at-experience\">Montez Press<\/a>, for \u20ac16<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tomoo Arakawa&#8217;s photobook encapsulates the random beauty of Los Angeles and West Coast<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[1198,3200,6517,402,6415,4112,6518,1984,6519,6520,154,6521,6522],"class_list":["post-40032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-books","tag-california","tag-green-tea-gallery","tag-japan","tag-japanese-photographer","tag-la","tag-laugh-at-experience","tag-los-angeles","tag-montez-press","tag-photobook","tag-photography","tag-tomoo-arakawa","tag-west-coast"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Japanese Photographer Making Us Dream of California The Japanese Photographer Making Us Dream of California<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/laugh-at-experience-tomoo-arakawa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Japanese Photographer Making Us Dream of California The Japanese Photographer Making Us Dream of California\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tomoo Arakawa&#039;s photobook encapsulates the random beauty of Los Angeles and West Coast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/laugh-at-experience-tomoo-arakawa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-27T12:54:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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