Unskilled labor played a major role in photography for the first time, and prices were greatly reduced: a dozen cartes de visite cost less than a single daguerreotype, and they could be reproduced by the thousands. Well attended and much commented upon, Canoa was even sometimes front page news. Suddenly, Juan Diego sees her, and her image is printed on his tilma, the cloak within which he has been miraculously gathering roses in the winter the first Mexican photograph? See figures 26, 27, and El Imparcial put the story on the front page for three days and provided ample graphic reportage with six photos, and other papers also covered the execution.
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