Working with Cobain for the promo for “In Utero,” Seliger took the famous shot of him surrounded by doll heads. The fotog said: “He was actually very easygoing and had a lot of fun with it. He seemed to be in great spirits. Two months later, he was gone.”

Recalling working with Nirvana on a Rolling Stone cover shoot a year earlier, he told us: “They often wore white T-shirts with the names of local bands from Seattle, and I was trying to avoid that. I asked Dave [Grohl, the band’s drummer,] and Krist [Novoselic, bassist,] not to wear these shirts, and they got off the van snickering. Kurt … was wearing his signature cardigan sweater and opened it up, and his shirt read ‘Corporate magazines still suck.’ I had to go back [to the editors] with that picture, and I felt like I had messed up — but they loved it, and it ran as is.”

Seliger is working with Christie’s to auction off limited-edition prints to raise funds for COVID-19 relief organizations.