Someone already knew her but they were pretending they'd recognized her picture in the paper.

"Then how did you recognize Falcon's picture on the television this afternoon?"

A couple of other users recognized his picture.

The gun dealer recognized Will's picture but would have had no way of knowing whether what he dealt with was a Seeming.

He recognizes Beppo's picture, and describes him as a rascal.

A woman who works at the university recognized his picture from the television news and called the campus police.

Not a single person had recognized Mo's picture.

Several places reported knowing Tawnya, but they mostly recognized her picture from the five o'clock news.

His conviction came to light when a prosecutor and a police officer recognized his picture in a newspaper, but a transcript was not immediately available.

How else could you so readily recognize his picture?