SENEGAL. Joannès BARBIER (1854-1909). Approximately 79 photographs, [circa 1890]; albumen prints, most mounted on card with the photographer's mark, various sizes (from 8.5 x 5 cm to 12 X 17 cm). Beautiful and rare set of photographs of Senegal. Most bear the mark: Photographie du Sénégal. J. Barbier Photographe. Dakar and Saint-Louis (Senegal)... Joannès Barbier, a merchant and photographer from Lyon, settled in Dakar in 1884. For ten years, he traveled and photographed the West Coast from Senegal to Sierra Leone and the southern rivers. His work focused on ethnographic and topographic scenes. In 1889, Barbier presented his first photographs at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and with his brother Louis Barbier organized the colonial exhibitions in Lyon (1894), Paris (1895) and Rouen (1896). In January 1892, he donated some of his work to the Société de Géographie. Various views of Dakar, colonial dwellings, landscapes (high river, etc.); corpses of natives about to be thrown into the river (following fighting?), ships, portraits of natives, colonists and colonial soldiers...