Fiona butler tennis girl
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Fiona has always said she had a photo shoot with her knickers off with Martin, she thinks that the photo shoot they had was the one that was used - that's not the case. After 30 years of trying to get to the bottom of it, Peter Atkinson has insisted the model in the Athena 'Tennis Girl' image is not the woman it is commonly believed to be. And he has the proof on an old postcard. Late photographer Martin Elliot had always stated the famous image was taken of his then girlfriend Fiona Butler in


Athena Tennis Girl makes cheeky comeback – in the name of art
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Remember This Classic Poster? Here's What The Man And Baby Look Like Now!
Mr Elliott who took the picture in while he was a photography student, used his then girlfriend Fiona Butler, 18, as a model. She borrowed a white tennis dress, a racket and balls and Martin took a photo of her from behind as she lifted her dress and touched her bare bum. He sold the image to poster chain Athena and it went on to become one of the most famous images in the world. It was first published it as part of a calendar for the Silver Jubilee - the same year Virginia Wade achieved the Wimbledon ladies single title. The picture - called Tennis Girl - went on to sell more than two million copes in Athena shops and continued to sell millions after the firm went bust in the s. Mr Elliott retained the copyright to the image and made a fortune but Fiona was never paid a penny - but did eventually marry a millionaire. He died peacefully aged 63 at his home in Perranwell Station, near Truro, Cornwall, late last month after a ten year battle with cancer.



Remember This Classic Poster? Here’s What The Man And Baby Look Like Now!
The picture featured year-old Fiona Butler and was taken at the University of Birmingham by her boyfriend at the time, Martin Elliott. She was not paid for her modelling. Elliott, who died in , sold the image licence for the Athena poster, which sold more than 2m copies.





The white garment, sold alongside the tennis racket that also features in the photograph, went under the hammer this morning at Fieldings Auctioneers in the West Midlands. It smashed its estimates with telephone and room bids outdoing one another, until the final bid from an anonymous buyer on the phone was crowned the winner, the auctioneers confirmed to The Independent. The infamous poster has graced the bedroom walls of teenagers and tennis fans since it was released in as part of an Athena calendar. She told the BBC last month: "I've had the dress tucked away in a cupboard for all those years. It's a little piece of tennis history and I hope someone might find it an interesting novelty item to buy.
