Iphoto won't display events or photos

I am not able to access my photos or events in iPhoto - I had connected my iphone 5 and it successfully downloaded some photos from the iphone. THen, I closed Iphoto and a bit later relaunched it to look for some other photos. It  doesn't not show any photos - or events - . I did import one photo - and it created an event but, it will not leave that screen. I cannot figure out how to return this page to the home page - or events page ( I'm not sure what it's called).
I was able to slow peruse things in "search backups" and found that the photos are still there but, this is very cumbersome and I need to find some photos relatively quickly. Please advise. Thanks, Thomas - i"m using 10.7.5

Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library - start at the first option and try each one in order
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