1. A method of browsing and displaying media items from a media collection comprising steps of: storing information about each of a plurality of media items in a media collection; obtaining a plurality of tags, the tags being terms or phrases associated with one or more of the media items in the media collection; storing the tags in machine-readable storage media; displaying an item image that is representative of a media item on a display screen along with tag images comprising the terms or phrases of each of a plurality of tags associated with the media item; in response to a user selecting a particular one of the displayed tag images, displaying the selected tag image along with a plurality of item images that are representative of media items associated with the selected tag, the item images each having a size that represents a respective relevancy of the media item to the selected tag; and in response to the user selecting a particular one of the displayed item images after said selecting a particular one of the displayed tag images, displaying the selected item image along with a plurality of tag images comprising terms or phrases of tags associated with the selected media item.