Sort photos by date added

Question

In iTunes one can sort the music in a myriad of ways(41 by my count), by virtually every descriptor that can be attached to a music file, once one clicks on the right column heading.
Why not the same in iPhoto (I will put this to iPhoto feed back one more time, as I am sure have many others)?  How may years now have people been asking for a "date added" to your database or "size of file" sorting options?  Still not here that I know of?   Here is about it for iPhoto in Lion OS:
Does anyone have a solution where I can sort through my images by size and/or date added (not date the image was taken)? Thanks.
Still it is a better program than in the past.  If it can't find duplicates like iTunes, at least it doesn't import them anymore.  There are many other good features, too.  I just hoped iPhoto could reach the search/organizing capabilities of iTunes. Thanks again for any help.
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Answer 1

Thanks Terence,
I took your advice and plopped down the 80 bucks for Aperture 3.2.3.  And, I appreciate your encouragement.
It unfortunately has been a disaster as I have spent hours trying to get it to work. It is as some others have said "mud slow" on my  i7 MBP.  I've tried many suggestions found on line to get it to work.  The list is long, but none have yet worked.  Even doubling my RAM to 8GB has not done it.  And, I am only using it on a database of about 2k images.  I wanted to test it out before turning my whole database over to it.
Another point; while Aperture does have the features I needed for searches, I have used iPhoto to share, via my web site, original versions of my images with my students using iPhoto's "web export" macros. Unfortunately, Aperture's web export macros do not allow images over 1200 pixels in dimension.  So, I've had to export from Aperture (takes forever) back to iPhoto to get the processed images published to the web at the appropriate size.
It's my bad, I should have seen all the people on this discussion group and others across the web who are having similar troubles with their Aperture slowing down.  Most seem to blame Lion upgrades.  This note is just to warn others that there is risk in buying software without testing a trial version first; Aperture being one of them.
In my 25 years as a Mac user, this is the most troublesome product I have ever purchased.  Maybe that is not too bad of a record.  I just hope there is a fix on the way for many of us who cannot get it to work.
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