  We study the reaction mechanism for the photoproduction of the Lambda(1520),
based on an effective Lagrangian approach. We investigate each contribution of
the s-, u-, t-channel processes and contact term, separately. One of the most
characteristic features of this reaction is the contact-term dominance which
governs the photoproduction from the proton, when the K*-exchange contribution
is possibly not too large. We suggest several different ways of the
polarizations and arrangement of the beam and target to make to understand the
role of each contribution separately in future experiments.
