Lot 155: CAMILLE BILLOPS (1933 - ) I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black.

CAMILLE BILLOPS (1933 - )
I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black.

Etching and aquatint, 1974. 300x430 mm; 11 3/4x17 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Third State" and numbered 15/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce print.

Camille Billops is an award winning visual artist, documentary film maker and art historian. Her etchings are in the Library of Congress, and were in the exhibition Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn''s Printmaking Workshop. Her films have been shown on Public Television and at the Museum of Modern Art; Finding Christa won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance. She and her husband James Hatch, Professor of English at CCNY, co-founded the Hatch-Billops Archives of Black American Cultural History, a collection of visual materials, oral histories, and thousands of books chronicling black artists in the visual and performing arts.