  In this work the roles of the nucleon resonances in the $\Lambda$(1520)
photoproduction off proton target are investigated within the effective
Lagrangian method. Besides the Born terms,including contact term, $s$-, $u$-
and $K$ exchanged $t$-channels, vector meson $K^*$ exchanged $t-$channel is
considered in our investigation, which is negligible at low energy and
important at high energy. The important nucleon resonances predicted by the
constituent quark model (CQM) are considered and the results are found well
comparable with the experimental data. Besides the dominant $D_{13}(2080)$, the
resonance $[\textstyle{5\over 2}^-]_2(2080)$ predicted by the CQM is found
important to reproduce the experimental data. Other nucleon resonances are
found to give small contributions in the channel considered in this work. With
all important nucleon resonances predicted by CQM, the prediction of the
differential cross section at the energy up to 5.5 GeV are presented also,
which can be checked by the future CLAS experimental data.
