The present invention relates to a method and device for image display. The method for image display comprises the following steps: determining the landscape and portrait directions of images to be displayed on the basis of the aspect ratio of each image to be displayed; sequentially labeling, on the basis of the landscape and portrait directions of the images to be displayed, the images to be displayed to produce image labels for the images to be displayed; sorting all of the image labels on the basis of a preset sorting rule to produce sequence numbers for all of the images to be displayed; searching in a preset template set for a preset template matching the sequence numbers, where the preset template set is created on the basis of preset maximum numbers of images displayable; and displaying, on the basis of the matching preset template and the sequence numbers, the images to be displayed at corresponding positions on a screen. This allows the displaying of the images to be displayed by being generated at the corresponding positions on the screen via the preset template matching the images, thus overcoming the technical problem that portrait images cannot be displayed in the optimized manner in a conventional 2-by-2 matrix display mode.