Elden's parents were paid $200 for the original shoot. They held a pool party during which Elden was photographed underwater for the then-unknown band. Weddle, the photographer, was a friend of Elden's father, the family told NPR in 2008. The suit said Elden had suffered "extreme and permanent emotional distress," as well as "lifelong loss of income earning capacity."
The album went on to sell 30 million copies, with songs such as Smells Like Teen Spirit becoming American pop cultural touchstones.īut neither Elden nor his legal guardians "ever signed a release authorising the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit said. I was trying to reach out to these people.
In 1991, when he was four months old, Elden was photographed naked in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a fish hook, an image that became one of the most iconic album covers of all time. Extract from Time: Even though Elden has recreated the photo shoot a number of times and has a large tattoo that says Nevermind on his chest, he says he hasn’t fully come to terms with being on the album’s cover. Spencer Elden says he has grown increasingly. "The Nevermind cover was created at time when Spencer was a baby and it is impossible for him to age out of this victimisation while his image remains in distribution," a statement from Marsh Law Firm said. Spencer Elden, 30, says Nirvana engaged in child pornography when the band used a picture of him naked on the cover of the breakthrough album. The iconic nude baby photographed for the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album is all grown up and suing the band, alleging the image violates child pornography laws. Elden's attorneys said Saturday he will appeal the ruling.
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