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. In 2015, he told the Guardian: “It is a weird thing to get my head around, being part of such a culturally iconic image. But before Nevermind’s release, Nirvana were an unknown band and Fisher was an equally unknown graduate working at Geffen.

The cover now features in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection and is regarded as a design classic.

Elden also has a tattoo of the word Nevermind on his chest. Part of Nevermind’s success was almost certainly due to its incredible cover, created by Robert Fisher. The defendants had previously argued that Elden had “spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed ‘Nirvana Baby’”, including recreating the image for the album’s 15th and 25th anniversaries. Following Olguin’s ruling, he cannot refile again, though he intends to appeal.Ī defence lawyer welcomed the ruling, describing the case as “meritless”. It continued: “A brief examination of the photograph, or Elden’s own conduct (not to mention the photograph’s presence in the homes of millions of Americans who, on Elden’s theory, are guilty of felony possession of child pornography) makes that clear.”Įlden refiled in January 2022.

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