Ady Fidelin
French art model (1915–2004)
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Adrienne "Ady" Fidelin (March 4, 1915 – February 5, 2004) was a French art model from Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. She was a romantic partner and model of Man Ray who photographed her hundreds of times.[1][2][3] She was the first black model to appear in the American mainstream press during the 1930s.
The New York Times profiled her in 2022.[2] She is in the 2023 film Lee about photographer Lee Miller. A copy from a 1937 gelatin silver print photograph by Lee Miller of a topless Nusch Eluard, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, and a topless Ady Fidelin is at the National Portrait Gallery in London.[4]