


When I first went to visit it, it was the first time I my life my retina was ever scanned. We were working on this book when we found out that there were undeveloped rolls of film that Kurt had shot at least 15 years ago - and they were still sitting around the archive collection, and no one had ever developed them.Īn “undisclosed location.” And it literally was at an underground bomb-proof bunker that Bill Gates stored his stuff in. I had seen Kurt’s archives and it would take a lot to surprise me, at this point, but I was surprised by some of the stuff. I’m familiar with a lot of Nirvana photos, but I’ve actually never seen a lot of the photos in Cobain Unseen. ( See a gallery of images from the book here.) Rolling Stone spoke to Cross about the project, and what it revealed about its mysterious subject. “When I went and saw that stuff, I called up Courtney and I said ‘Jesus fucking Christ, I cannot believe this art and how amazing all this stuff is.’ ” Cross’ new book, Cobain Unseen mines that archive for artwork, photographs and journal entries that have been locked away since the Nirvana leader’s death. Cross came across the nearly 100 boxes of the rocker’s belongings that had been moved into a secure storage facility. While researching his Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, journalist Charles R.
