Jesse Frohman ,Kurt Cobain: The Last Session and so much more!

Published: Dec. 11, 2015, 10 p.m.

b'While earning a degree in economics at the University of Michigan, Jesse Frohman picked up a camera and never put it down. When he returned home to New York, he had no formal training or experience, but he did have a portfolio of platinum prints, which caught the interest of legendary photographer Irving Penn, who hired Jesse to manage his studio.Jesse has photographed countless celebrities and still lifes.His work is also in many private collections. Jesse lives and works in New York. And whilst he may have shot everyone from James Brown to Woody Allen, The Stroke to Diane Von Furstenberg for Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, it\\u2019s his iconic portraits of Kurt Cobain, shot in New York in 93 that linger longest in the memory. One of Kurt\\u2019s last ever photoshoots before his untimely passing. It\\u2019s now being commemorated by ONETSHIRT for a new capsule collection\\xa0On the 20th anniversary of his death, a powerful portrait of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana including many previously unpublished image\\xa0taken during their last formal photo shoot .\\xa0In August 1993, when Nirvana was in New York to perform at the legendary Roseland Ballroom, Jesse Frohman photographed them for the London Observer\\u2019s Sunday magazine Over the course of ninety photographs, Cobain seems an almost feral creature, by turns gentle, playful, defiant, suffering, or absorbed in his music. There\\u2019s a diverse range of shots of Cobain with fellow band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and on his own, posing, performing, and greeting fans. Jon Savage\\u2019s original interview, which appeared with Frohman\\u2019s photographs in the Observer is also reproduced, giving us Cobain in his own words. The book is a touching tribute to Cobain twenty years after his tragic demise, and following Nirvana\\u2019s recent induction in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The book contains 90 illustrations, 25 in color.'