IPhoto is suddenly unable to import from card

IPhoto was giving me error messages every time it read photos from my camera’s memory card. The message was that one photo (and only one photo) had an “invalid header” or some such.
So I used my camera to do a “low-level format” of the card, which you are supposed to do periodically anyway. IPhoto didn’t seem to like this, and now when I insert the card into the reader, iPhoto launches but does not offer to import the new photos into iPhoto.
However, I can see and view the photos perfectly fine in the finder, I can copy them to a finder folder, and I can open them perfectly fine with graphicconverter, so I do not understand why iPhoto is suddenly unable to import them.

Once copied to the hard disk, can you then import them to iPhoto from there?
Regards
TD

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