Zdjęcie z konkursu piękności i inne dokumenty osobiste. O pracy badawczej i poszukiwaniu znaczeń „czarnych dziur” – na przykładzie rekonstrukcji biografii Zygmunta Baumana

The article focuses on extracting from the shadows certain events that, for strategic or accidental reasons, did not leave any traces in the archives, testimonies and various documents of people who were the subject of research (most often in the case of the reconstruction of their biographies). This text refers to a situation in which the problem is not so much the lack of data as their excess, as well as numerous legends that have grown up around the main figure of the reconstruction of life history – Zygmunt Bauman. The article emphasizes the importance of context and meanings accompanying the recreated biography, which enables a better understanding of the main character.