Baby From Nirvanas Album Cover Recreates Iconic Photograph 25 Years Later. He got a huge Nevermind tattoo on his chest in cursive letters and recreated the album cover thrice: at the ages of 11, 17, and finally 25. ELDEN WAS PD OFF ABOUT THE IMAGE In a 2016 interview with GQ Australia, Elden said that he was 'pd off' about the album art. The legendary Nirvana album from 90s Nevermind has a legendary cover, too. He appears to have changed his tune about the album in recent years. But he has always maintained the only compensation he ever got was the $200 that Weddle paid his parents for the photo shoot, despite his attempts to contact Grohl, Novoselic, and others, about the issue.Įlden told Time magazine in 2016, for Nevermind's 25th anniversary, that "it's hard not to get upset when you hear how much money was involved," and when "I go to a baseball game and think about it: 'Man, everybody at this baseball game has probably seen my little baby penis,' I feel like I got part of my human rights revoked. Elden recreated the image years later and even has the word Nevermind tattooed on his chest. Eldens father worked with sets, custom rigging and photo shoot props for. After all, Elden himself recreated the iconic cover he now despises for the record’s 25th anniversary. But understandably, many people are not buying it. "Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews," says Elden's lawsuit, filed in federal court in California.Įlden has recreated his cover shot, with swim trunks on, for various anniversaries of Nevermind's release, and he has the album logo tattooed on his chest. Back in 1991, Elden was only a few months old when Weddle asked his parents to let him take the photo for the album cover. It’s reported that Elden is seeking at least 150,000 in damages from each of Nirvana’s members. "Non-sexualized nude photos of infants are generally not considered child pornography under law." Elden's lawyer claims in the lawsuit that the addition of the dollar bill makes naked baby Elden look "like a sex worker." "The image has generally been understood as a statement on capitalism, as it includes the digital imposition of a dollar bill on a fishhook that the baby appears to be enthusiastically swimming toward," Variety reports. Nirvana celebrated the 25th anniversary of their seminal album Nevermind on Saturday, and everyone we mean everyone wanted to celebrate its silver jubilee in a good rockin’ and rollin. Elden is seeking at least $150,000 from each defendant. There are a few album covers that come to mind when I think in terms of 'most memorable,' but perhaps none, at least in the last couple decades or so, are as staying as Nirvana's Nevermind.That.