Sweden, Finland, Iran, and Japan. Career in its peak; life's end Beny was obsessed with the beauty of the world. He has been called "a poetic photographer" and he was a passionate aesthete. His photographic journeys were recorded in a series of large-scale volumes which appeared over the years. Beny's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Yale University Art Gallery. "I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to his book, Pleasure of Ruins. Roloff Beny died March 16, 1984, of a heart attack, aged 60, in his Roman studio overlooking the Tiber. His last four volumes appeared posthumously. Beny donated his artwork including collections of Canadian and international art, together with his papers, to the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Roloff Beny's books 1958 – The Thrones of Earth and Heaven, H.N. Abrams 1962 – A Time of Gods, Studio, 1964 – Interprets in Photographs: Pleasure of Ruins, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967 – To Every Thing There is a Season, Roloff Beny in Canada, Thames and Hudson 1967 – Japan in Color, McGraw-Hill 1969 – India, Roloff Beny and Aubrey Menen, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1970 – Island Ceylon, Studio, 1974 – Roloff Beny in Italy, McClelland and Stewart, 1974 – Persia, Bridge of Turquoise, Roloff Beny, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mitchell Crites, New York Graphic Society, 1978 – Iran, Elements of Destiny, Everest House, 1981 – The Churches of Rome, Roloff Beny and Peter Gunn, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1981 – Odyssey: Mirror on the Mediterranean, Harpercollins, 1983 – The Gods of Greece, Roloff Beny and Arianna Stassinopoulos, Harry N. Abrams 1984 – Rajasthan, Land of Kings, McClelland & Stewart, (Beny died while this book was in publication.) 1985 – The Romance of Architecture, H.N. Abrams, (posthumous) 1985 – Iceland, McClelland & Stewart, (posthumous) 1994 – Visual Journeys, Roloff Beny, Mitchell Crites and Michael Crites, Thames & Hudson, (posthumous) 1995 – People, Legends in Life and Art, Roloff Beny, Mitchell Crites and Jack McClelland, Thames & Hudson, (posthumous) Awards His books won awards throughout a long career, beginning with The Thrones of Earth and Heaven in 1958. To Every Thing There is a Season: Roloff Beny in Canada'' is a study of his native land. In 1972 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.