I want the photos in iPhoto on my iMac to also be on my Macbook Air.

The photos and albums in iPhoto on my iMac show up on my iPhone and iPad but they aren't showing up on my MacBook Air. How can I make that happen?

Niel's recommendation is good, if you only want to browse the library on your MacBook Air.
But there is one drawback. If you copy your iPhoto library from your iMac to your MacBook Air as Niel described, you will have two separate libraries on both Macs that are not synced. You will have to copy the libraries back and forth, each time you edit the iPhoto libraries on one of your Macs. If you want to work with your library on both macs, use a sneaker drive. Copy the iPhoto library to a small, portable drive, that is formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled) and set the "Ignore ownership on this volume" flag for the drive. Plug the drive into the Mac where you want to work with your library. 
How to set up the drive is described here:  iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198

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