It was a rare image, and its feeling of assurance won my heart.
His great portrait of a tailor cutting cloth, for instance, is both a rare image of a 16th-century worker and a great portrait of male gentleness.
He does not float across the turf so often or so convincingly now; he even tumbled when lobbed yesterday, a rare image of a god brought to ground.
The image of an African being trussed up for servitude by other Africans is deeply discomforting, and Mr. M'Bala exploits the power of that rare image.
Mavlian said a particularly rare image that will be on show was a tiny 3cm image, taken in 1917 by Hungarian photographer André Kertész, called Underwater Swimmer, which she described as a "tiny gem".
The intimate collection by Mr. Cummins, who was an Atlantic photographer, portrays a group of young rockers before they became hugely famous and includes a rare image of Robert Plant, the band's singer, playing the acoustic guitar.
When we see them in an American museum, removed from their original contexts, part of their power is lost, although the catalog includes "a rare image of a Songye nkishi figure in situ, with its guardian" — a faded but evocative black-and-white photograph from around 1913 to 1916.
Another vernacular image, a Currier & Ives lithograph titled "Into Mischief," from around 1857, shows a toddler wreaking havoc in a nursery — a rare image of a girl misbehaving, in a cultural landscape that included mischievous boys like Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
Martin Bailey, a Van Gogh specialist and author of The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece, discovered a rare image of the work Six Sunflowers in a portfolio in Japan, which has escaped the attention of art historians.
Take the poster for the 1926 Fritz Lang film Metropolis, an extremely rare image that fetched $357,750 at Sotheby's in 2000 and $200,000 on eBay the same year.
In a painting titled "Duh," he's clutching his head with a pained expression, while in "Funny You Should Ask," you get to see a rare image of Greenspan grinning.
