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Lens: Photos at El Museo del Bario

L. Morales, Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio

Starting today, some 80 images will be on display in “superreal: alternative realities in photography and video,” a new show at El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem. What’s on display is shot with a documentarian’s eye, but includes a dose of mystery and otherworldliness. A spare-looking installation is designed to address the short attention span of the viewer in the digital age, forcing one to stop and look a little longer at how the images were created.

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