BY KAREN BOSSICK

Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of her wealthy East Coast family and close friends, many of whom are denizens of New England, have given people a glimpse of a world beyond their imagination.

Now Barney, who moved to Sun Valley in 1973, has a new book of photography out that includes some of these photographs, as well as photographs of working class street people and portraits of fashion models and actors shot in Europe and Asia.

She will discuss her work, which she does to capture things before they disappeared, with novel writer Judith Freeman during a free conversation at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30, at Ketchum’s Community Library. Signed copies of her book will be available for sale, courtesy of Chapter One Bookstore.

Barney will also be featured in a 2005 documentary being screened at the library at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 28. The film, “Social Studies,” follows her as she attempts to capture the lives of Europe’s aristocrats with her own camera lens.

Barney was born to Philip Henry Isles and 1940s fashion model Lillian Fox. Her great-grandfather Emanuel Lehman, who co-founded Lehman Brothers investment bank, introduced her to photography. She volunteered to catalog photographic work for the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the early 1970s.

Tina began her own photographic career in earnest when she moved to Sun Valley and began taking photography classes as a hobby from the Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanities.

It was a very sophisticated school, she told Ken Weingart of PetaPixel. “A lot of photographers whose photographs I collected came there to teach. It was like jumping into a MFA program right from the start.”

Now her own photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y., the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and other museums.

Her written studies include “Theatre of Manners,” “The Europeans,” “Players” and her new retrospective “Tina Barney.”

Freeman, who will lead the discussion with Barney, has a home on the Camas Prairie with her photographer husband Anthony Hernandez.

She just completed a memoir titled “The Latter Days.” Her novels include “The Chinchilla Farm,” “Set for Life” “A Desert of Pure Feeling” and “Red Water.”

One previous non-fiction book is “The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved.”