The City Lights Era
The City Lights Era
SHIG’S
LIFE
























Shig with mystery package. Date and photographer unknown.
At City Lights, date unknown. Photo by Mark Green.
Shig, ACLU attorney Al Bendich, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Howl trial, 1957.
In his vest. Date and photographer unknown.
This Arnold Newman photo appeared in the March 1970 issue of Holiday magazine. It accompanied a Herb Gold article called “Culture, Counter Culture, or ‘Barbaric Intrusion,’ There’s Something Going on in San Francisco.”