»Looking like something you might find in your father’s workshop under a pile of old Popular Mechanics, Alec Soth’s Broken Manual is ostensibly about escape and transformation. This many layered book deals with options and possibilities, chance and circumstance. What is going on here and why? This is a photobook for our times, where particularly right now in America so many things appear to be broken. But not Broken Manual. This photobook is about as close to perfect as you can get.«

– Harvey Benge –
Auckland, Paris