  The presently available data for the reaction ${\gamma}p{\to}\eta^\prime{p}$
are analyzed in terms of a model in which the dominant production mechanism is
the exchange of the vector mesons $\omega$ and $\rho$. To describe the data at
photon energies close to the production threshold we introduce a resonance
contribution due to the well established $S_{11}(1535)$ resonance. Finally we
study the contributions due to nucleon exchange to the $\eta^\prime$
photoproduction and find, that those contributions can be seen at large angles
in the differential cross section.
