The energy dependence and the magnitude of the cross section for a; production by unpolarized photons measured 1,2 in the reaction yp-p7r + 7r~iT 0 (1)suggests that oo production proceeds partly via one-pion exchange (OPE) and partly via diffraction scattering, with the dominant contribution at low energies (~2-4 GeV) coming from OPE. Using polarized photons, the contributions from natural parity [P= (~1) J ] and unnatural parity Phys. Soc. 1£, 41 (1970).