A security element for securing security papers, value documents and other data carriers, having a lenticular image for displaying, unscaled, two or more predetermined target images (14A; 14B) whose motifs are formed by visually perceptible, contrasting image regions, - the lenticular image including a lens grid and, arranged spaced apart from the lens grid, a motif image that, when viewed with the lens grid, displays the predetermined target images (14A; 14B), - the lens grid being formed from a plurality of cylindrical microlenses that are arranged in a grid by which a coordinate system is generated having a first coordinate axis that is determined by the focal lines of the cylindrical microlenses, and a second coordinate axis that is perpendicular to the first coordinate axis, - the motif image being formed from a plurality of unit cells that are arranged offset to each other in the grid of the lens grid, - each of the unit cells being broken down into two or more sub-areas (28A; 28B) parallel to the first coordinate axis, each of the sub-areas being allocated to precisely one of the target images and each including an unscaled section of the target image to which the sub-area is allocated, characterized in that - the motif image is formed by a plurality of optically effective facets (33-1; 33-2; 33-3; 33-4) whose orientations are determined by their normal vectors, - in the motif image, at least two groups of optically effective facets (33-1; 33-2; 33-3; 33-4) having different orientations being provided, the at least two groups each including at least one optically effective facet and producing, when viewed with the lens grid, the visually perceptible, contrasting image regions of the target images (14A; 14B), and - the normal vectors of the optically effective facets having no component in the direction of the second coordinate axis or having a component in the direction of the second coordinate axis that is at least one order of magnitude smaller than the component in the direction of the first coordinate axis. - the lenticular image including a lens grid and, arranged spaced apart from the lens grid, a motif image that, when viewed with the lens grid, displays the predetermined target images (14A; 14B), - the lens grid being formed from a plurality of cylindrical microlenses that are arranged in a grid by which a coordinate system is generated having a first coordinate axis that is determined by the focal lines of the cylindrical microlenses, and a second coordinate axis that is perpendicular to the first coordinate axis, - the motif image being formed from a plurality of unit cells that are arranged offset to each other in the grid of the lens grid, - each of the unit cells being broken down into two or more sub-areas (28A; 28B) parallel to the first coordinate axis, each of the sub-areas being allocated to precisely one of the target images and each including an unscaled section of the target image to which the sub-area is allocated, characterized in that - the motif image is formed by a plurality of optically effective facets (33-1; 33-2; 33-3; 33-4) whose orientations are determined by their normal vectors, - in the motif image, at least two groups of optically effective facets (33-1; 33-2; 33-3; 33-4) having different orientations being provided, the at least two groups each including at least one optically effective facet and producing, when viewed with the lens grid, the visually perceptible, contrasting image regions of the target images (14A; 14B), and - the normal vectors of the optically effective facets having no component in the direction of the second coordinate axis or having a component in the direction of the second coordinate axis that is at least one order of magnitude smaller than the component in the direction of the first coordinate axis.