Moscow photographs made a few years ago by Irina Fruc with a very special Lomo Compact Automat (LC-A) camera fitted with a surreal filter developed by Paul Delvaux.

The Lomo LC-A "SR" model would have had no distance control, since its place was taken by the surreal control. The SR could not take close-ups.
Sadly, in spite of the outstanding results obtained, the LOMO decision to stop production of the LC-A made the surreal model impractical since the filter cannot be added to an existing LC-A (like a fish-eye lens) but must be incorporated inside the camera during production.
Here are twelve examples of what the Lomo LC-A "SR" had in store for us, to make us say with Neil Young :

The saddest words
Of tongue or pen
Are these four words
"It might have been"

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