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by Alwyn R Coates
WONDERWALLS by Lindsay Baker, The Guardian, Saturday 10 November 2001 - There was the tennis girl, that man and baby, the icy, airbrushed women with electric blue eye shadow and glossy red lips. Think of the pictures that bedecked the bedrooms of teenagers 20 years ago and one name springs to mind: Athena. As the 1980s enjoy a revival, Lindsay Baker looks back at the poster company that became a phenomenon
[Athena Poster] Beyond City Limits by Alwyn R Coates was another huge seller, a black-and-white picture, colour-tinted, depicting a male and female model on a motorbike - shot in Surrey with a dramatic fake sky superimposed. It was a veritable nostalgia-fest: Sheila Rock's images of young couples in retro clothing, shot in moody lighting, recalled Doisneau's The Kiss, a classic shot from an earlier era that had already been a big Athena seller.