{"id":3850576,"date":"2015-05-21T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/time.com\/?p=3850576"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:16:44","slug":"joan-baez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/people\/joan-baez\/","title":{"rendered":"See Photos of a Young Joan Baez as She Began a Life of Music and Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joan_Baez\">Joan Baez<\/a> is an icon of folk music activism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Seeger\">Pete Seeger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Anderson\">Marian Anderson<\/a>, Baez demonstrated how fame can be used as a platform for activism.<\/p>\n<p>These portraits of Baez by LIFE photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/ralph-crane\/\">Ralph Crane<\/a> were taken in 1962, when she was a mere 20 years old, near her home in Carmel, Calif. &#8220;Standing on the shore,&#8221; the description in LIFE read, &#8220;she evokes the same wistful intensity that goes into her rare but luminous recordings of sweet laments.&#8221; Some of them were sweet laments, to be sure, but half a century later it&#8217;s clear that her music has been so much more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. 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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.\" caption=\"Ralph Crane The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Joan Baez 1962\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2015\/05\/150507-joan-baez-01-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"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.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Joan Baez 1962<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Ralph Crane The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3850599\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3850599 desc=\"Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962.\" caption=\"Ralph Crane The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Joan Baez 1962\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2015\/05\/150507-joan-baez-02-799x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Joan Baez 1962<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Ralph Crane The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_3850600\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3850600 desc=\"Folk singer Joan Baez on the beach near her home in Carmel, California, in 1962.\" caption=\"Ralph Crane The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" 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