Cannot import camera photos from iPhone

I have taken a few photos with the iPhone camera. When I connect it to my MacBook and launch iPhoto, it goes into import mode, but only shows three white rectangles where the photos should be. After "Import All", iPhoto says:
*Unreadable files: 3 -- the following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data).*
Even when I go to the iPhone and delete all camera roll photos, the above error still shows up. Image Capture also fails to import and/or delete these "unreadable files". New pictures show up on the iPhone camera roll, but not on iPhoto or Image Capture -- I always get these three files.
As a consequence, I can no longer download any picture I took with the iPhone. Any suggestions?

Since photos captured by your iPhone are included with your iPhone's backup, I suggest restoring your iPhone as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
This will lose your iPhone settings, but I know of no other way to resolve this problem.

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