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![Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 142 from a roll of 300.
“This was the most time consuming alternate version of the cover that we tried,” art director Robert Fisher told us. “More so even than the Army Platt incident, this really drove a wedge between myself and Kurt [Cobain].”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly8kj1LojY1rnfbnho1_500.jpg)
Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 142 from a roll of 300.
“This was the most time consuming alternate version of the cover that we tried,” art director Robert Fisher told us. “More so even than the Army Platt incident, this really drove a wedge between myself and Kurt [Cobain].”
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 001 from a roll of 087.
“I was surprised he did this,” Krist Novoselic says.
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 029 from a roll of 032.
No info available.
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Update on Legal Issues
Good news for 2012!
DGC Records and New York Journal have reached an agreement between themselves and all third-party rights holders of these images. “Nirvana Nevermind Baby Screen Tests” will resume shortly.
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Site Notice
Due to pending litigation, New York Journal has been barred from publishing additional “Nirvana Nevermind Baby Screen Tests” until further notice.
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![Nevermind Baby Screen Test.
[The person depicted in this screen test photo has requested that we remove this photo from our feed. New York Journal and DGC Records regrets the error.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly4rdtEnMG1rnfbnho1_500.jpg)
Nevermind Baby Screen Test.
[The person depicted in this screen test photo has requested that we remove this photo from our feed. New York Journal and DGC Records regrets the error.]
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo origin unknown.
This image originated on a series of bootleg Nevermind CDs that began to surface in Hong Kong following the release of the band’s third and final studio album, In Utero, in 1993.
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 065 from a roll of 070.
Eight-month-old Boston Phoenix was photographed in River Phoenix’s backyard swimming pool.
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | found photo.
This 1986 image of future Olympic swimmer László Cseh was briefly considered for Nevermind according to Ferenc Hapsburg, a Hungarian-American janitor at DGC Records’ main office in the early 1990’s.
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Nevermind Baby Screen Test | photo 012 from a roll of 012.
According to DGC Record’s art director Robert Fisher, ten-month-old Army Platt “really should have been the Nevermind baby.” Fisher reportedly fought with Cobain about this for weeks, even going so far as to doctor a photo of Platt with the visible penis from the photos of inevitable Nevermind baby Spencer Elden.
“I fought really hard for Platt’s inclusion. I went too far, really, and I regret that,” Fisher says. “I really wish Dave and Krist hadn’t told you to ask me about it, actually.”
September 24, 2011 marked the 20th Anniversary of Nirvana's chart-topping masterpiece Nevermind: an album that defined Seattle's "Grunge" sound for a generation of music listeners the world over.
To celebrate, New York Journal's Arts & Leisure section—in association with DGC Records—is proud to present to the public, for the first time ever, the original screen tests for the Nevermind baby.
DGC Records art director Robert Fisher photographed countless swimming infants before selecting three-month-old Spencer Elden to grace the cover of Nirvana's career-defining album. Fisher also tested several monetary values, currencies and denominations, before he and the band agreed upon the simple power of the U.S. dollar bill.
Each Saturday for the entirety of the 20th year anniversary of "Nevermind," we will be presenting original, never-before-seen mock-ups of the album's packaging (as well as mock-ups generated in the planning phases of several more recent reissues and other rarities).
We're "not the only ones" who love Nirvana! And we hope you'll share these "stupid and contagious" photos with the fellow Nirvana lovers in your life!
Sincerely,
Max Paige-Vieux
New York Journal
