Famous for being photographed nude at four-months-old for. Spencer Elden (born February 7, 1991) is the baby from the Nevermind cover. In the photo, the baby floats below the surface of the aquamarine water, posed like a skydiver, with. “He called up my dad and said 'I've got my first big shoot and they're paying me to take this baby underwater and I don't have a baby', well I was just born so they took me down to the local pool and threw me in.”Įlden’s Dad explained his version of events to NPR: " calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'" Rick recounts. Nirvana are being sued for child sexual exploitation around their iconic Nevermind album cover. The grunge rock band Nirvana, in 1991, the year its smash album Nevermind was released. “He kind of got this portfolio together of underwater photography and his first big job was this Nirvana baby shoot. EpvzhtDcvCĮxplaining how it came about, he added: “My parents were going to art school with a photographer Kirk Weddle so they kind of supported him. Spencer Elden, the baby on Nirvana's Nevermind, recreates album cover 25 years later. With those words, uttered by photographer Kirk Weddle, 4-month-old Spencer Elden was on his way to fame (though not fortune) as the baby on the cover of Nirvana’s chart-topping album, Nevermind. It's kind of a fun fact about me I guess – everyone in the world has seen my penis.” “That's because I'm the baby on the front of the Nirvana album. As someone who has obsessively listened to this band for 20 years and thought there were no hidden gems left, I was wrong. “My nickname is Nirvana Baby,” Elden told Vimeo in 2009. Nirvana Nevermind: Nirvana In Utero: Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York: Nirvana Nirvana: Nirvana Live and Loud: Worth any price of admission for the fully electric cover of David Bowies 'The Man Who Sold the World'.
The idea for the front cover shot of the baby swimming was taken after Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl saw a TV documentary on water babies and was taken by Kirk Weddle. It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was four months old and it became this really iconic image," he said 1991 - Photographer Michael Lavine took what would be the publicity shots for Nirvanas Nevermind album at Jay Aaron Studios in Los Angeles. He continued to tell the New York Post, "The anniversary means something to me.
"I said to the photographer, 'Let’s do it naked.' But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts," Elden told the New York Post. Check out Frances Bean Cobain's first public playlist