  Based on the high precision experimental data released by the CLAS
Collaboration recently, the interaction mechanism of the photoproduction of
$\Lambda$(1520) off a proton target is investigated within a
Regge-plus-resonance approach. With the decay amplitudes predicted in the
constituent quark model, the roles played by nucleon resonances are studied. It
is found that $N(2120)$ provides the most important contribution among the
nucleon resonances predicted in the constituent quark model. The $t$ channel
contribution with Regge trajectories and the $\Lambda$ intermediate $u$ channel
are responsible to the behaviors of the differential cross section at forward
and backward angles, respectively.
