Yulia Yakovleva

Valery Katsuba: Phiscultura Yulia Yakovleva

Phiscultura presents not just Katsuba's own work, color photographs of contemporary Russian athletes posed in Speedos and piled into gymnastic pyramids, but his inspiration, K. Bulla's late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of earlier generations of athletes, from the St. Petersburg's State Archive. The juxtaposition enhances the characteristics of Russia's past and future.