Vintage Black Glamour

Model Adrienne Fidelin with her lover, the iconic photographer Man Ray in the 1930s.

From The New York Times:

The story begins in Paris around 1936, when a young dancer from Guadeloupe named Adrienne Fidelin met Man Ray. He was 46 and, judging from pictures of her at the time, she was in her mid-20s. An enchanting, high-spirited beauty, Fidelin — who was known as Ady — became Man Ray’s lover, model and muse. The exact circumstances of their meeting, as with many details of her life, remain elusive. What is known is that she was dancing with a French company with ties to Guadeloupe and that the two were inseparable. Fidelin met Man Ray at the height of the Surrealist movement and was quickly embraced by his close-knit circle of artist and writer friends.

Man Ray/Telimage. © 2007 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS) , New York/ADAGP, Paris.