Does a good photographer have to know art?

Of course, otherwise, why do you want to open a photography department in the Academy of Fine Arts instead of other colleges?

If you want to be a photographer, you can go to the studio as an apprentice, or you can go to a professional photography school, but if you want to be a photographer, you have to take the Academy of Fine Arts. These two people think differently. You can learn art-related knowledge in the Academy of Fine Arts, but you can only learn superficial photography techniques in the photography school.