“Why am I still on their cover if I’m not that big of a deal?” he said. 25-year-old artist Spencer Elden, also known as the baby from Nirvanas iconic 'Nevermind' cover, marked the records 25th anniversary by recreating the photoshoot. Elden said he was referred to managers and lawyers.
He said that his feelings about the cover began to change “just a few months ago, when I was reaching out to Nirvana to see if they wanted to be part of my art show.” “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice,” Mr. A work that was a turning point in the music scene and is remembered for its content But also for its iconic cover. In a different interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ is one of the great milestones in music history. “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016. It’s the addition of the apathetic but sardonic title itself Nevermind that suggests some kind of awareness of the identity-based issues the band faced. Over the years, he has expressed ambivalence about the cover. For example, he worked with Shepard Fairey, the artist who was sued by The Associated Press for using an image of Barack Obama for his piece “Hope.” Elden, who declined to comment on his suit, said in a short documentary in 2015 that the album cover had “opened doors” for him. Elden, an artist living in Los Angeles County, has gone to therapy for years to work through how the album cover affected him, said Maggie Mabie, one of his lawyers.
Elden suffered “permanent harm” because of his association with the album, including emotional distress and a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.” The lawsuit did not provide details about the losses and said they would be disclosed at trial. “Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday in federal court in California. It is one of the best-selling records of all time, with at least 30 million copies sold worldwide.
He claimed that they, along with Geffen Records, which released “Nevermind,” profited from his naked image. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Mr.