Sharing the Power. A Multivocal Documentary. (De meerstemmige documentaire - delen in de macht)

The author explores the possibility of multivocal productions
within cultural anthropology and documentary film and
photography. Multivocal meaning: the sharing of the power of
authorship. They are the result of a re-examination of the place
of Western imagemaking in a postcolonial world. While most of
the author's article concentrates on anthropology and film, the
questions raised pertain directly to current dilemmas in
documentary photography. Both have been afflicted by the 'crisis
of representation'. The author's somber conclusion of his
thorough exploration: ""The grandiose expectations we had about
documentary media are exhausted. It should be possible to
construct a practice with modest aspirations, one that neither
pretends it has the power to change the world nor the desire to
pity but instead aids in our attempt to comprehend and critique
a world grown increasingly incomprehensible. Documentarians will
have to learn to share their power to represent or they may lose
it altogether''.



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