Talk:María Guðmundsdóttir (filmmaker)

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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedy deleted as lacking sufficient context to identify its subject, because... --Tanquist (talk) 09:12, 1 December 2017 (UTC) María Guðmundsdóttir is an important person in Iceland, especially in the Westfjords and her hometown of Djúpavík in particular. After winning the Miss Iceland title in 1961, she went on to become an international supermodel, actor, owner of a New York City photo studio, photographer, and filmmaker. She most recently filmed a documentary about life in her home municipality of Árneshreppur.[reply]

Her Miss Iceland 1961 title and former vocation as supermodel should be sufficient context. If you search Google for "María Guðmundsdóttir supermodel", the first eight results are associated with supermodel images on Pinterest (however, the ninth result is the Wikipedia page for the alpine ski racer named María Guðmundsdóttir). I thought about using "supermodel" as a disambiguation term, as that is how she is best known outside of Iceland. However, she is a living filmmaker and photographer and it seemed absurd and disrespectful to make her primary identification a vocation she has not worked in for decades.

Ingólfur Margeirsson wrote a book about her (María, konan bak við goðsögnina). Since there is nothing written online about her in English aside from a few Miss Iceland citations and Pinterest entries, it is difficult to find references for this page. However, I hope to get help from an Icelandic friend who owns the Margeirsson book to fill out this page with proper references.