George F. Mobley American, born 1935 Georgia O’Keeffe and “Black Place III,” 1980 Digital C-print George F. Mobley/National Geographic Creative ——————————— National Geographic photographer George Mobley paired O’Keeffe’s dressed body with one of her Black Place paintings, capturing the shared modernist vocabulary of her art and life. Her strong silhouette and black and white custom-made suit ensemble reiterate the shapes and palette of her painted black hills. From the beginning of her time in the public eye, critics, like Helen Appleton Read in 1924, noted this consonance between O’Keeffe’s appearance and her art: One has only to look at the artist and note her clear-cut features and extreme simplicity of manner and spirituality, to realize that she could not paint in any other way. Each picture is in a way a portrait of herself.