On April 12, 1994, just one week after Kurt Cobain died by suicide in his family home in Seattle, Washington, Nirvana's record label, DGC, released Live Through This, the major label debut by his wife Courtney Love's band, Hole. One of the greatest albums of the decade, listened to in the immediate aftermath of Cobain's death, Hole's second album was almost too raw and painful and beautiful to absorb at the time, lyric after lyric seemingly more poignant, gut-wrenchingly honest and heartbreaking when reframed in the light of the events which preceded it.
Family Values: Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean is a reminder of the human tragedy behind the headlines. The book is a collection of around 90 photographs, the vast majority of them previously unpublished, shot by photographic team Guzman, aka aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, at the Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles home shared by 25-year-old Cobain, 27-year-old Love and their one-month-old baby daughter Frances Bean, on September 23, 1992 for the December '92 issue of US music magazine Spin.
