Kurt Cobain s The Last Session Photoshoot Will Be Sold as NFTs
Kurt Cobain’s ‘The Last Session’ Photoshoot Is What NFTs Are Made for
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The NFT bubble is becoming bigger and bigger, and so are its releases. Today, we ve got another NFT release on our hands that could be more ground-breaking than the rest. Never-before-seen photos from Kurt Cobain s famous last photoshoot – dubbed The Last Session – are going to sell as non-fungible tokens.
The iconic photoshoot took place just a few months before the Nirvana frontman’s death in 1994. Now, photographer, Jesse Frohman has launched a website to auction off more than 100 photos from that day as NFTs.
Apr 29, 2021
Kurt Cobain’s ‘The Last Session’ photo shoot is to be sold as a Non Fungible Token (NFT).
Photographer
Jesse Frohman took the pictures in 1993 and has dubbed the NFT
The Last Session Complete Collection. He and says it contains 104 images, Polaroids and contact sheets. The auction starts on Monday and the starting bid is equal to about $75,000.
Non-fungible tokens, which are created entirely in the cyber world, are unique digital items that are the equivalent of original paintings or first-edition books in the non-digital world. They re one-of-a-kind and cannot be duplicated. Read more about it here.
Share this article Kurt Cobain s The Last Session Photoshoot Will Be Sold as NFTs The photoshoot took place just a few months before Cobain’s death in 1994.
Photographer Jesse Frohman has officially released Kurt Cobain‘s
The Last Session photoshoot, expected to sell them as non-fungible tokens.
Earlier this week, Frohman launched a website to auction off more than 100 photos from that day as an NFT. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will be going to the JED Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises awareness of emotional and mental health and preventing suicide for teens and young adults across the nation.
Kurt Cobain s iconic final photo shoot, which took place just months before the
Nirvana frontman s death in 1994. Those pictures, which show Cobain flaunting a trapper hat, leopard print jacket and oversized white sunglasses, quickly became famous and are some of the most well-known snapshots of the late rockstar. But Frohman kept a number of contact sheets and negatives that were never scanned and therefore never released to the public, and now he s offering them up as one massive
NFT collection appropriately titled The Last Session.
“Everyone was doing an individual picture here, an individual picture there, maybe a group of three here, but I wanted to do something that other people hadn’t done before,” Frohman told
Frohman said: The Last Session NFT drop is an artistic exploration into the ways evolving forms of media and technology can be used to keep a legend like
Cobain alive and celebrate his impact on music and on generations. The Last Session Complete Collection is a set of 104 images, polaroids, and contact sheets - some previously never seen or sold - from my photoshoot with
Cobain in 1993, the last photoshoot he ever did, and some of the most iconic images ever taken of him. All 104 images are sold under a single, indivisible 1-of-1 NFT. If ever resold, the collection will stay together as one NFT; a complete hallmark of