1950 Plicka left FAMU due to health issues, and devoted himself mainly to landscape and architectural photography. His photographic and ethnographic work was published in many books and was highly regarded both by public and experts. In his books, Plicka concentrated on documenting folk traditions, Slovak landscape, and Prague. During his life, Plicka received the highest state awards, such as Řád práce (Order of Work) (1954), National Artist (1968), Prize for the Best Book of the Year (1971), National Prize of the Slovak Socialist Republic (1975) and Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam, 1991). Karel Plicka died in 1987 in Prague. He is buried in the Slovak town of Martin. Since 1988 there has been a museum dedicated to his work in the Slovak village of Blatnica. Books of work by Plicka These lists are not complete. Photography Slovensko / Slovakei / Slovaquie / Slovakia. Martin: Vydala Matica Slovenská, 1938. City of baroque and gothic: 208 photographs. London: Lincolns-Prager, 1946. Views of Prague. Prague en images / Prague in photographs. Prague: Orbis, 1950. Prague in photographs / Prague en images / Praga w Obrazach. Prague: Artia, 1954. Praga regia: Das königliche Prag. Royal Prague. Prague royale. Prague: Orbis, 1955. Prague in photographs. Prague: Artia, 1961. Prague: The golden city. London: Hamlyn, 1965. žijeme v Praze. Prague: Orbis, 1964 VLTAVA. Prague: Orbis, 1967. 7 procházek Prahou: fotografický pru̇vodce městem. Prague: Orbis, 1966. Levoča: klenotnica umeleckých pamiatok. Martin: Vydavatel̕stvo Osveta, 1980. Československo. Prague: Orbis, 1974. Other Eva Studeničová spieva: z piesňovej zbierky Karola Plicku. Martin: Vydatelʹstvo Osveta, 1984. A collection of folk songs. Filmography Za slovenským ľudom (1928) Po horách, po dolách (1929) Jaro na Podkarpatské Rusi (1929) Zem spieva (1933) Prezident republiky Dr. Beneš u nás (1935) Za Slovákmi od New Yorku po Mississippi (1936) Věčná píseň (1941) Praha barokní Chebsko (1943) Pán prezident na Slovensku (1945) Roľnícky deň vo Zvolene (1946) Notes References External links Karel Plicka at the Czech and Slovak Film Database Múzeum Karola Plicku (Karol Plicka Museum). Website of Blatnica. Czech ethnographers Czech folk-song collectors Czech musicians Czech photographers Czech film directors 1894 births 1987 deaths Photographers from Vienna Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 20th-century musicologists Burials at National Cemetery in Martin