{"id":731,"date":"2022-03-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=731"},"modified":"2022-03-17T05:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:03:19","slug":"daily-ginko-photo-and-haiku-iron-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/03\/19\/daily-ginko-photo-and-haiku-iron-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Ginko Photo and Haiku: Iron-Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a-1320x1320.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>michels iron law<br>the artistry gatekeepers<br>the clock strikes hourly<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br><strong>Caistor Parish Church March 15th @ 13:44:59<\/strong><br><br>Be creative in your own way<br><br><strong>\u201cThe Iron Law of Oligarchy,\u201d <\/strong><br><br><em>Sociologist Robert Michels spent much of his career studying the dynamics of power in organizations. <\/em><br><br><em>His research resulted in a startling conclusion known as \u201cThe Iron Law of Oligarchy,\u201d which suggests that all organizations, regardless of their original mission, structure, or how democratic they aspire to be, inevitably evolve to serve the interests of a small elite. <\/em><br><br><em>Since its publication in 1911, many studies have attempted to seek exceptions to the Iron Law. Very few such exceptions were documented, and the Iron Law remains one of humanity\u2019s most inconvenient of all inconvenient truths.<br><\/em><br><em>I was reminded of the Iron Law recently when a friend shared with me his experience of attempting to apply for an art grant. His art, like mine, is based on photography of natural subjects. To the learned eye, his work is indisputably distinctive in style within what laypersons may refer to generically as \u201clandscape photography.\u201d His application was rejected, in part, because his work was perceived as \u201caesthetic\u201d and \u201cconvenient,\u201d with the admonition that he should strive to get a sense of what\u2019s being done in \u201ccontemporary photography.\u201d<\/em><br><br><em> <strong>Put another way, a public institution proclaiming to promote art rejected an artist on the premise that his work is not sufficiently similar to that of other artists, not provocative or obscure enough, and too pretty.<\/strong><\/em><br><em>\u2014Guy Tal<\/em><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-why-make-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-15-14-44-59-P1033930a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}