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In one 60-hour span in July, for instance, the Bello Monte morgue overflowed with the corpses of 49 murder victims. Homicides nationwide surged almost 31 percent in the first quarter to 4,659, according to the Interior Ministry. No wonder Caraqueños grimly joke about studies of violence that rank their city as deadlier than Baghdad.

“I had worked much in the Middle East and I was fed up and I was longing to work in a place where there was music, beer and even pretty girls to brighten the scenery,” Mr. Anderson said from his home in Brooklyn. “It could have been any place.”

The book’s name refers to a domed government building like one here in the old center built by Antonio Guzmán Blanco, a 19th-century despot. Capitolio, Mr. Anderson said, is also a metaphor for an oil country’s export of revolution even as its capital, Caracas, rots from within. An excerpt has been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, an environmental photography prize.

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