One of the most powerful portraits in the history of photography. Photo

They are really impressive.

They say a picture can say a thousand words. But there’s something to target and permanently left under the impression – look the person in the photo. The eyes of the people on these 19 pictures tell the whole story – maybe that’s why these incredibly powerful photos shocked the world.

1. Dislike: 1933, when Joseph Goebbels (German politician and follower of Hitler) learns that the photographer is a Jew

2. Hatred: a black girl goes to a school for white after the adoption of the law on the abolition of separate education of white and black US citizens

3. Eyes that have seen a nuclear explosion in Hiroshima

4. The look of exhaustion: American soldiers released from German pow camps. Germany, 1945.

5. “Childish” look: the son of Syrian rebels, Aleppo

6. Eyes full of courage 18-year-old Bibi Aisha from Afghanistan fled from her husband, a Taliban fighter, because of the constant violence. During the escape she cut off her nose and ears.

7. Agony of 13-year-old Omayra Sanchez from Colombia, jammed with debris after the mudflow. The girl tried to pull out three days, she remained conscious. The photo was taken before she died.

8. Innocence: African boy with an extremely rare eye color

9. Crazy eyes: the shell-shocked soldiers during the First world war, 1916. Contusion leads to loss of reason, to the extent that a person can not sleep, walk or talk.

10. Amazement: born deaf Harold Wills first hears with a hearing aid.

11. Fear: police trying to rescue a woman from a sinking car

12. Adoption: photo titled “the Last Jew of Vinnitsa”. 1941.

13. Relief: a surgeon after a successful 23-hour surgery for a heart transplant

14. Opening: photo by Anna Fisher on the cover of Life magazine in 1985. In 1984 she became the first mother in space.

15. “War is hell” – the inscription on the helmet of an American soldier in Vietnam, 1965

16. Curious glances, and men of Papua New Guinea for the first time show you how to use a condom

17. Despair: Indian homeless handing out free food

18. Thanks to: 12-year-old Brazilian Diego Torquato plays the violin at the funeral of his teacher who helped him to get out of poverty

19. Glance to nowhere: Italian pilot Antonio Petrocco after the battle, which lasted 72 hours

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