Noted photographer Ed Goldstein died on December 16, 2025 at the Casa De La Luz hospice in Tucson, Arizona. Born April 26. 1943 in East Los Angeles, he received a first prize at East Los Angeles College for his photography at age seventeen. As a commercial photographer in New York, he worked in the studio of visionary American photographer Melvin Sokolosky and in Los Angeles with clients including, Chiat Day, CBS Television, Saatchi and Saatchi. Assignments took him to France, Thailand and Mexico where he photographed local people and landscapes. Never without a camera, he expressed his art using traditional photographic techniques, always in a darkroom. He travelled across back roads of the U.S. in a 1956 Chevrolet pickup searching and finding objects to photograph. Along the way he rescued antique cameras, obscure lenses, large-format enlargers and a collection of photographic and building tools. His series, "Tools that Built America" exhibited at the Oakland Museum of Art, Collector's Gallery and the Hawaii State Capitol demonstrate the distinctive visual spirit for his work. Ed's warm, engaging personality attracted so many friends who supported his work, especially the artist community of Hawaii's Big Island where he lived for many years. He is survived by his sons Joshua and Greg Goldstein, and his long time partner and best friend, Judith Samuel.