Martin Elliott was a British

British people

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 photographer, best known for the poster "Tennis Girl

Tennis Girl

The Tennis Girl is a popular poster. It shows a young woman from behind walking towards the net of a tennis court with a tennis racquet in her right hand and her left hand reaching behind lifting her short tennis dress, showing she is not wearing any underwear.The photograph was taken by Martin...

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Elliott, an only child, was born into a middle-class family in Oldbury

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. He attended Oldbury Grammar School, then Loughborough College of Art

Loughborough University

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. He met Noelle Bott in 1987, and was married to her from 15 February 1988 until his death. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1999, and died of it in 2010 at his home in Pulla Cross, near Truro

Truro

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, Cornwall

Cornwall

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, aged 63.