Museum displays psychedelic photos, drawings.

Byline: Phillip Valys

Oct. 15--Ernest King was almost one snapshot away from being murdered in Tijuana. He always fancied building facades, from New York City skyscrapers to international slums, so when he aimed his Olympus at one Mexican barrio, a pimp running underage prostitutes demanded to see his camera. "The pimp took me aside and I was freaking out. He had a gun," remembered King, 41. "Thank God, it turned out that I had only took photos of buildings and not the prostitutes. He would've smashed my camera and smashed me, too." King is a self-proclaimed "photo manipulator," first snapping digital images of male models, house pets and flowers, then …