IPhoto Photos folder disappeared from sidebar

I've loved being able to upload photos from iPhoto using a Photos folder that was in my finder window sidebar. The photo sync hadn't updated for over a day, so I went into the iCloud settings, unselected Photos, then selected it again, as directed in a post I found somewhere. This actually worked and photo sync updated, but now the Photos folder is completely missing from my sidebar!!!
I have conducted several searches, and found the iPhoto Library, but photos are buried in multiple layers of folder hierarchies. It's just not as user friendly as the folder previously available, where it essentially just showed the photo stream.
Can anyone help me regain the simplicity I previously enjoyed?

The "Photos" folder (or the Media Browser) will show only show in the File Chooser window, when you are prompted to select an image file - as Terence Devlin said.
You will see it in the sidebar, in the "Media" section, when you select a file, but no longer in the Finder. That has been discontinued since MacOS X Lion.
If iPhoto does not show in photos, repair the iPhoto library.

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Thumbnail shows a page filled with pictures when in page mode, but when you are looking at the page itself, below the thumbnails, the picture is missing
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