Manuel Naranjo Martell, SACA 1504

SACA 1504

Manuel Naranjo Martell

Publisher
RM
Year
2026
ISBN
9788410290693
Specifications
Hardback
24 × 32 cm
160 pages
134 images
Texts by Manuel Naranjo Martell
Design by Underbau
English and Spanish

SACA 1504 is a photographic project developed over nearly a decade around the Saca de las Yeguas of Doñana —the traditional roundup of the wild mares—in Doñana (Huelva, Spain), today a National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Legally regulated in 1504 through an ordinance issued by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, the Saca is the heir to earlier livestock and equestrian practices, rooted in the Andalusi world and in the historical management of the marshland. The book places the yegüerizos, the ancestral figure from which the American cowboy would later emerge, at the center of this rite and recognizes them as direct predecessors of American equestrian culture. Their knowledge of horses and territory crossed the Atlantic alongside the equines brought to the Americas in 1493—horses of marshland bloodlines—and, over time, gave rise to figures such as the cowboy, the llanero, the charro, and the gaucho. More than documenting an event, Saca, 1504 proposes a visual reading of a shared historical and cultural heritage between the lands of the lower Guadalquivir River and the Americas, around a profound bond with the horse, deeply rooted both among the yegüerizos of Doñana and within the equestrian cultures of Native North American peoples, the so-called Horse Nation .

More from RM

Spine Index, an archive of independent photobooks

FIND A
BOOK
/
/

ARCHIVE

Loading…

ABOUT

SpineIndex is a digital platform dedicated to independent photobooks, photography publications, design books, and self-published editions — the kind of work that rarely makes it into bookshop windows or mainstream catalogues. It exists to document, connect, and keep visible a world of publishers, artists, and makers who operate outside conventional distribution. A living reference for anyone who takes this territory seriously — collectors, researchers, students, and the simply curious.

#

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

X

Y

Z