Removing contact avatar photo

Nokia N9. Is it possible to completely remove the avatar picture from a person in my phone contacts? It seems it's only possible to change the picture, but not delete an existing one.

there are really only two options from the n9 when working with the icon...select from gallery, and capture new image.
but...there are two things you can try:
1.  i have included a plain black jpg file you can save to your gallery, and this can be chosen.  though i doubt it will show the 2-letter initials...just the black picture from now on.
or, you can sync to outlook, open the contact, right click, remove picture  then sync again and it should be gone.
or, in outlook you can copy the contact and create a duplicate, delete the picture before sync and it should show the initials.
hope that helps.
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