The phrase "a former image" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an image that existed in the past or was previously held or displayed.
Example: "The artist decided to recreate a former image that had been lost over time."
Alternatives: "an earlier image" or "a previous image".
Take, for example, a Mexico City-based brand called Virgins, Saints and Angels, which is designed by a former image consultant for Levi's named Cheryl Finnegan who moved from California to Mexico after a divorce.
A vertex of tree S, a former image of the upper terminus of the root edge of a pruned subtree, contains an implicit loss in G n +1 induced by a new edge in the tree G n +1 formed after merging of two initial edges.
All of this represents a departure from your former image as a longtime bachelor who dated Bianca Jagger and Carrie Fisher.
The stitching lays out a rigid pattern -- just a trace of the former image left behind.
Two days later, I get a call from his former image maker.
Yet, magically, he now appears more moderate in comparison with his former image: an image that he created, then labelled extreme.
Santikhiri meaning "hill of peace" was introduced by the Thai government in an effort to disassociate the area from its former image as an established opium zone.
In the last decade, the town has been trying to regain its former image as a more upscale center of culture and relaxation.
Benn - pictured here at the 2003 Labour conference - shed his former image as a firebrand, but never his socialist principles, as he settled into the role of elder statesman.
As reported in a previous article published in Cities, at the end of the nineties the city of Turin started investing heavily in creative and cultural branding strategies, in order to modify its former image of an industrial one-company town.
A sports enthusiast with a former playboy image, Lacalle Pou has made fun of Vázquez and Mujica, calling them "a council of elders".
