Kurt Cobain was born on this day in 1967. Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind was arguably the most influential album of its time, selling more than ten million copies during the band’s short life.
Kurt Cobain
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Mark Seliger, born 23 May 1959
- Sitter
- Kurt Cobain, 20 Feb 1967 - 5 Apr 1994
- Date
- 1993 (printed 2013)
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Platinum-palladium print
- Dimensions
- Image: 46.7 × 35.5 cm (18 3/8 × 14")
- Sheet: 61.8 × 50.3 cm (24 5/16 × 19 13/16")
- Type
- Photograph
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