On the second floor, Cartier-Bresson's photographs (all from the Fondation) are the work of a younger man (Strand was 18 years his senior), less saddle-sore, seemingly more optimistic.
This might have helped when he set off to ride, saddle-sore and thunder-struck, through the inhospitable and wildly beautiful deserts of Utah and Arizona an experience which made him decide that he must return to his original impulse and become a novelist.