'Tennis Girl' photographer dies

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Phogtographer Martin Elliott, who captured that iconic Athena image of a young, lithe tennis player hitching her skirt to reveal a pert behind, has died at his home in Cornwall.

Love it or hate it, it's an iconic image which has certainly endured. Sad news indeed.

Link here has more info.

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Tried to post in the news section, but couldn't for some reason :shrug:
 
Sad news

that poster has been copied many times but never bettered.

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Gosh, though sorry to hear of departed merit, I've just renewed acquaintance with someone I haven't seen in over thirty years.
 
Iconic image, great story behind it to and it was truly an image of my youth!! RIp Martin.
 
RIP a legend. Iconic image, as said in the article, often copied, never bettered. :(
 
OMG I never really thought of it as a photo.. just as a poster.. and i remember it well.. the guy certainly left his mark on the world...
 
R.I.P, I remember seeing that photo when I was a kid, made me giggle!
Reading that article though, feel sorry for him that he did not get hired much because people thought because he's famous it will be too expensive.
 
I remember that poster being on the wall, along with other iconic 70s posters (Che Guevara, Easy Rider stills, naked girl covered in blue paint, etc!) in the barber's shop when I was a kid during the mid-70s.

Sad news.
 
Like so many, I remember this image as if it were yesterday. Certainly an image that captured a "moment in time".
 
I was 16 when he took that shot, I well remember it though I never really knew of him. RIP m8.
 
I think every teenage boy had the hots for that picture.

Certainly I did and scary thing it only seems like a blink away.

RIP
 
I think it's one of the most famous photographs in (outside of photographer circles). Very iconic. RIP.
 
wow a real iconic photo ask most people to name a poster and this would be on their list :'(
 
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