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This article aims to clarify the notion of re-creative image, by exemplifying it with fantasist photos and video games. The re-creative image corresponds to the transformations in the notion of image described by Walter Benjamin in L’œuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée. The visual recreation is here understood as a practice that, resulting of the emergence of new media such as the photography, aims to “distract”, and follows the model of collage. In spite of their different positions in the genealogy of image, fantasist photography of the first decades of the XXth century, which will be the main subject of this paper, and virtual games, are able to illustrate this notion.