Tuesday 12th May 2015 by Rebecca Schiller | Photos by Modern Rocks Gallery

22 outtakes from Nirvana's Nevermind

Kirk Weddle's photos are on display at Austin's Modern Rocks Gallery

Speaking of the photographs, Modern Rocks Gallery owner Steven Walker said: "These images are incredibly important. They're an important piece of rock history, and they also mean a lot to me personally as a musician and as a fan. They show a band on the verge of changing the face of music, a band about to conquer the world, a band about to release something that was to become one of the most influential albums of our time. But they also show a band on tour, a band that are tired, a band that are probably homesick and a little bit grumpy too. And a band that has just been thrown in a swimming pool on their day off because someone from the record company told them that's what they had to do, and that's why I love them!"

He continued: "As a music fan first and foremost, I'm so pleased to be able to make these photographs available to both Nirvana fans and music fans alike because they show so much more than 3 blokes in a band floating in a swimming pool. The almost surreal images of Kurt Cobain literally hanging in the water, sometime looking lost, sometimes looking totally insane, are the ones that I love the most. Nevermind kicked down the doors when it arrived on the scene, everyone knows the floating baby front cover, but these outtakes are as unique as they are cool."

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Modern Rocks Gallery in Austin, Texas is currently presenting a collection of outtakes from Nirvana’s Nevermind photoshoot, taken by Austin photographer Kirk Weddle. Many of these images appeared in the documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, but prior to that, they were not available to the public.

The photoshoot, which took place on October 28, 1991, was intended to mimic the infamous Nevermind album cover featuring the naked baby in the water. However, when the tired band, who had just finished a string of concerts, arrived at the LA pool at 10am, it was unexpectedly cold and they weren't thrilled about jumping into a freezing swimming pool.

"I remember Kurt was like, 'Fuck! I have to get in the pool?'" Weddle recalled from the photoshoot. "He was not a water guy at all."

After Weddle convinced the band to jump into the water, he took approximately 200 photographs, which he had just kept “stacked in a closet, unorganized” until now.

Click here if you would like to order prints of any of the images.