Yosemite reinstall lost my iPhoto pictures

Hi
Because of performance issues I performed a clean reinstall of Yosemite. However, iPhoto is empty.
Are these lost? Why haven't they been reinstalled from iCloud?
I have seen a reference to opening iPhoto using the Ctrl and Alt keys to rebuild the database. Am I OK to do that in this instance?
Thanks.

I thought the data was actually stored there.
It's not. There is nothing on iCloud unless you put it there. Currently, the photo library in the Cloud is in beta - as in, not officially ready for prime time - and only works with iOS devices. There is no capability in iPhoto to work with any cloud library. That's promised with the new Photos.app, due later this year.
Questions for Apple need to be addressed to Apple.

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