What was the name of the baby pictured on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover?

The baby pictured on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover was Spencer Elden.

Elden was photographed underwater by Kirk Weddle for the album artwork in 1991, when he was about four months old. The image shows a naked baby swimming toward a US dollar bill attached to a fishhook, reflecting themes of commercialism and innocence.

Nevermind became one of the most influential albums of the 1990s, and its cover became instantly recognizable. Elden’s parents received a small payment for the photograph, while the image itself was created as part of a larger visual concept developed for the album.

The cover is sometimes mistakenly credited to Nirvana themselves or to a computer-generated design. It was actually a staged photograph, and Weddle used a baby-swimming session to create the final image. Elden later recreated the pose several times for anniversaries of the album, although those later photographs were not the original artwork.