14 Never-Before-Seen Photos From The World's Best Photographers

Ask any professional photographer how many photographs they have taken in their lifetime, and you're liable to get an astronomical number.

But how many of those exposures are ever seen by anyone other than the photographer himself? Not many.

"When you're editing you're editing towards a certain end, and when that end is met you forget about the pictures that didn't make it," famed photographer Larry Towell told the New York Times.

Towell and many of his fellow legendary photographers at Magnum Photos, the renowned photo agency, are now diving into their archives, looking through old negatives and digital files to save some of these lost photographs - ones they love, but for whatever reason, never shared.

These striking photos are being rescued as part of a limited-time sale put on by the cooperative agency. Signed prints of select images can be purchased for $100 at Magnum's webstore.

Magnum shared some images, along with the photographer's story behind them, with Business Insider. You can see more on their site and on their Instagram page.