Kurt Cobain, before the age of the digital zombies | Jonathan Jones

As Courtney Love cedes all rights to Cobain's image, where it will be used in an age of CGI and holograms is anyone's guessEven the background of this picture is a ghost. Kurt Cobain stands on West 42nd Street in Manhattan in 1993, in front of a semi-derelict cinema bearing the words Men Don't Protect You Anymore. The photographer had noticed it and Cobain dug the idea of posing in front of it. Soon he would be gone and so would the grungy squalor of this part of New York, reclaimed and turned i...

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