Kurt Cobain: New Book Highlights ‘Spin’ Photoshoot with Courtney Love, Frances Bean
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love famously participated in a photoshoot with Spin in 1992. The photoshoot featured the couple and their newborn daughter, Frances Bean. Only five photos were published by Spin, but a new book will feature the release of the entire photoshoot for the very first time.
Family Values: Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean comes out on June 4 and is currently available for pre-order at powerHouseBooks.com.
Per powerHouse Books, the books feature two unique essays. One essay is by Michael Azerrad, a close friend of Cobain’s and the author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The other essay is written by Guzman, the husband-and-wife duo who photographed the iconic music couple and their baby for Spin.
Guzman wrote of their experience of photographing the young family, “Slowly, a narrative of two transcendent artists beside their most tender creation began to unfold upon the studio wall—and those are the images that appear in this book.”
Frances Bean Cobain’s Tribute to Kurt Cobain
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain. France Bean Cobain took to Instagram to pay tribute to her father. She shared a series of photos, which included childhood photos of Kurt and a couple of photos of herself with her father when she was just a baby. Frances Bean was about 20 months old when Kurt died by suicide.
Included with her Instagram post was an incredibly poignant caption. Frances Bean wrote, “I wish I could’ve known my Dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story. I always wondered if he would’ve caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if he smelled of Camel Lights & strawberry Nesquik (his favorites, I’ve been told).”
She continued, “But there is also deep wisdom being on an expedited path to understanding how precious life is. He gifted me a lesson in death that can only come through the LIVED experience of losing someone. It’s the gift of knowing for certain, when we love ourselves & those around us with compassion, with openness, with grace, the more meaningful our time here inherently becomes.”
Frances Bean added, “Kurt wrote me a letter before I was born. The last line of it reads, ‘Wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you.’ He kept this promise because he is present in so many ways. Whether it’s by hearing a song or through the hands we share, in those moments, I get to spend a little time with my dad & he feels transcendent.”
She concluded, “To anyone who has wondered what it would’ve looked like to live alongside the people they have lost, I’m holding you in my thoughts today. The meaning of our grief is the same.”
Frances Bean’s post received many comments, including from Michael Stipe. He wrote, “Oh Frances, you possess a grace and glorious wisdom that stops me in my tracks from time to time, and today is most certainly one of those times. Love is eternal, and this is all the proof we need. AND I had forgotten about the strawberry Nesquik!!!”
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