* Bert Andrews; Photographer Documented Black Theater

Bert Andrews, 63, a photographer whose pictures became a history of the black theater since the 1950s. Andrews’ subjects included such performers as James Earl Jones, Denzel Washington, Billy Dee Williams and Louis Gossett Jr., and plays such as “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “A Soldier’s Play” and “Bubbling Brown Sugar.” About 3,000 of Andrews’ photographs are on display at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. It is believed the largest exhibit of its type in the world. His work was also collected in the 1990 book, “In the Shadow of the Great White Way: Images from the Black Theater.” In New York on Monday of cancer.