--- title: Photos of Joan Baez Near Her California Home in 1962 description: In honor of Joan Baez's Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, LIFE revisits early-1960s portraits of the folk singer. canonical: https://time.com/3850576/joan-baez/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-21T12:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:06.276Z og:title: Photos of Joan Baez Near Her California Home in 1962 og:description: In honor of Joan Baez's Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, LIFE revisits early-1960s portraits of the folk singer. og:url: https://time.com/3850576/joan-baez/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e29eb7606e449ab/6987eed13c1639ccad455e72/150507-joan-baez-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1597 og:image:height: 898 og:image:alt: Joan Baez 1962 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Photos of Joan Baez Near Her California Home in 1962 twitter:description: In honor of Joan Baez's Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, LIFE revisits early-1960s portraits of the folk singer. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e29eb7606e449ab/6987eed13c1639ccad455e72/150507-joan-baez-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Photos of a Young Joan Baez as She Began a Life of Music and Activism > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 21, 2015 12:00 PM UTC  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 21, 2015 12:00 PM UTC On Thursday in Berlin, Joan Baez, 74, will receive the 2015 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, along with the artist Ai Weiwei. Though many know her first for her gently trilling soprano voice, activism is as much a part of Baez’s identity as the sound that led LIFE to declare her, in 1962, “the best folk singer of them all.” From her performance at the landmark civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to her advocacy for migrant farm workers and gay rights to her denunciation of torture and the death penalty, Baez has championed human rights both on- and offstage. Like two of her major influences, Pete Seeger and Marian Anderson, Baez demonstrated how fame can be used as a platform for activism. Now, in honor of her award, LIFE revisits photographer Ralph Crane’s early-1960s portraits of Baez near her home in Carmel, Calif. “Standing on the shore,” the caption read, “she evokes the same wistful intensity that goes into her rare but luminous recordings of sweet laments.” Some of them were sweet laments, to be sure, but half a century later it’s clear that her music has been so much more. _Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at_ [_@LizabethRonk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._  Caption from LIFE. Joan Baez, who makes her home in Carmel in the Big Sur country where, standing on the shore, she evokes the same wistful intensity that goes into her rare but luminous recordings of sweet laments. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962. 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