If there's one photography collective to get as up close and personal as possible then it's Magnum. Technically an artists' cooperative, Magnum photographers have, since 1947, found and captured intimacy in everything from Cuban disc jockeys to Chicago prostitutes, fleeting moments of beauty in the midst of the Haiti earthquake tragedy, and in lessons on how to suck toes at Tokyo’s sex schools.

A name synonymous with storytelling, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once described Magnum as "a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually.” Although Cartier-Bresson passed away over a decade ago, those words couldn’t ring more true today, and with masters like Elliott Erwitt and the late Robert Capa and Eve Arnold, plus new gen names like Carolyn Drake and Matt Black on their books, the cooperative are opening up the archives with their "Up Close & Personal: The Most Intimate Photographs from Magnum" sale. With images going for just $100 (around £65, give or take) the cooperative are making such stories accessible to a new generation of photography fans by celebrating the connection that exists between the human condition and the camera lens.

"Up Close & Personal: The Most Intimate Photographs from Magnum" is a sale from Magnum Photos, as interpreted by over 60 photographers and artists. Signed and estate stamped prints for $100 will be available for a limited time, from 1pm on Monday 9 November until 11pm Friday 13 November. Use the code DAZED-MAGNUM for 10 per cent off

WAYNE MILLER

“When I spotted an interesting scene or situation, I didn’t try to hide myself or my camera. Instead, I often approached the people involved.‘Please,’ I said, ‘pay no attention to me. Just keep doing what you’re already doing.’ Believe it or not, they usually did. Once I even photographed a veteran prostitute on the job with one of her regulars. They didn’t mind. Afterward, when asked if I had gotten the pictures, I said that it had happened a bit fast; he then invited me to come back next Tuesday, when he would arrange for me to have all the time I needed.” – an excerpt from Wayne F. Miller, Chicago’s South Side, 1946-1948

PETER VAN AGTMAEL

“I took this picture on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama. My friend Christian and I had flown to Miami a few days prior after covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti that killed 150,000 people in 2010. I was upset that my pictures couldn’t hint at the scale of the destruction I’d just witnessed. It felt too vast for photography. We decided to go to New Orleans, which felt like a good spot of purgatory before heading back home. A friend of Christian’s joined us, and we headed north. As we neared the Alabama border Christian whipped the car over to pick up a pretty-looking hitchhiker. When we pulled up, her two companions and their dog ran out of the woods and jumped into the car. We stopped at a shack bar on stilts in the outskirts of Mobile and played pool. They said they would part ways from us. One of them had run into trouble in New Orleans and was wary of going back. I took this picture after leaving the bar. The girl leaned forward for a moment to get more comfortable and her hair fell over her eyes just as the late afternoon light began to shine through the clouds. I took a few frames and, as always, the moment was gone almost before I’d even noticed it.”

CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON

“In 2008, my first child was born. Up until that point, my photographs as a ‘war photographer’ had been about the experiences of others in far away places. Now, for the first time, I found myself photographing my own family... my own experience. It was not a conscious decision. It was quite an organic and ordinary reaction, that of any new father. It didn’t occur to me that these photographs had anything to do with my ‘work’. But I now realise that these images were actually my life’s work and that every photograph I had made up to that moment was just a preparation to make these photographs of my family.”