Recently imported photos lost (?)

This afternoon, I imported 500 photos from my iPhone 5 into iPhoto ('11, v 9.4.2). After the photos were imported, iPhoto asked me if I wanted to keep the photos on my iPhone or delete them. I selected "delete" (which the program did). iPhoto subsequently crashed and now the photos aren't showing up in either place (on the phone or in iPhoto). I can locate the photos in my library but don't know the best way to get them into iPhoto. I tried repairing the iPhoto library but it didn't fix things. What's the best way to proceed?
Thanks!

Well... I'm not sure what I did, but everything's fixed! 

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