An Italian guy stopped me and said, “You’re the Nirvana baby!” which I thought was the craziest thing. I would never go up to anyone wearing a Nirvana T-shirt and say, “Hey, that’s me”, but I was once recognised on a bridge in Venice when I was there for the Biennale. I don’t tell them it’s me, and my friends boast about it more than I do. Sometimes girls chat me up about it more than the other way around. He is a huge music connoisseur: when he heard I was the Nirvana baby, he thought that was really cool. I’m 23 now and an artist, and this story gave me an opportunity to work with Shepard Fairey for five years, which was an awesome experience. But it’s always been a positive thing and opened doors for me. It is a weird thing to get my head around, being part of such a culturally iconic image. He spoke to The Guardian in 2015 about the positive impact of the photograph on his life: Spencer Elden, the baby on Nirvana's Nevermind, recreates album cover 25 years later. Elden’s lawyer argued that the dollar bill that was superimposed on the photograph after it was taken made the minor seem “like a sex worker.” The case alleges that Nirvana had agreed to cover the genitals with a sticker but had not fulfilled that agreement.Įlden has, however, recreated that same album cover himself a number of times - always wearing swimming trunks - over the past few decades, both as a teenager and as an adult. law, non-sexualized photographs of babies are not considered to be child pornography. He is asking for $150,000 from each defendant, including surviving band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain’s estate, album photographer Kurt Weddle, Cobain’s former wife, Courtney Love, Universal Music, Geffen Records, Warner Records, and MCA Music.Īccording to the BBC, Elden argued that his “true identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day.” He added that the artwork has caused him “extreme and permanent emotional distress,” and he has suffered lifelong damage and needs “medical and psychological treatment.” The baby, now a 30-year-old man named Spencer Elden, also alleges that the band carried out child pornography by featuring a photograph of a naked baby. The baby on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album, released in 1991, is suing the band for allegedly exploiting his image, saying the band knowingly distributed his naked photograph as a baby and profited from it.
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