  Photoexcitation of the nucleon is studied in the framework of the constituent
quark model with nonrelativistic quark-quark interactions. Utilizing the
dominance of the pairwise structure of the relevant three-quark potential, the
bound and excited state wave functions have been constructed using the
Faddeev-type Integrodifferential Equation Approach. The method is based on the
Hyperspherical Harmonics expansion and takes two-body correlations exactly into
account and therefore reliable wave functions, required in photo processes, can
be obtained. The integrated photoabsorption cross sections for the E1-and
M1-transitions are calculated and compared with experimental values as well as
with those of other theoretical calculations. Our results, in overall, are in
good to very good agreement with the experimental values.
